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Title: A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route."
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, Ogden, Salt LakeCity, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland. One ofthese trains, the fast one, is called The Limited FastMail. From Kansas City two fast express trains leavedaily for Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, and Port-land. These trains have Pullman Palace Sleeping Carsand modern Day Coaches. The equipment of thesetrains is unsurpassed, and all that can be desired. A good road-bed, standard-gauge track, steel rails, iron bridges, and stone culverts combined, insuresafety and speed. The important points where connections are made are as follows:JuLESBURG, Colorado, five miles from the Colorado-Nebraska State line,where the Council Bluffs & Denver line branches off to Denver. Denver, Colorado, where the Colorado branches of the Union Pacificconnect for Idaho Springs, and important cities, resorts, and places inColorado. Cheyenne, Wyoming, where the Kansas main line from Kansas City andthe Denver Pacific main line from Denver to Cheyenne, join the Nebraskamain line. (17)
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(18^ FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE. 19 Granger, Wyoming, where the Union Pacific branches off for Portland,Oregon. The trains, however, connect at Green River, thirty miles east ofGranger, and are made up at that point. Pocatello, Idaho, where the Utah & Northern branch of the Union Pacificconnects with the main line for Butte, Garrison, and Helena. From Pocatellothe Utah & Northern branch also diverges south to Ogden, Salt Lake City,and Garfield Beach. Beaver Caxon, Idaho, on the Utah & Northern branch, where connectionis made with the Union Pacific stages for the Yellowstone National Park. Shoshone Station, Idaho, on the Union Pacific Ry., where connection ismade, via stage, for the Great Shoshone Falls, and also where a branch ofthe Union Pacific Ry. makes connection for Hailey and Ketchum. Nampa, Idaho, where the Idaho Central branch connects with the mainline for Boise City. Ogden, Utah, where the Utah Central branch of the Union Pacific connectswith the main line for Salt

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