Built
in the early 1950s, this 40’ boxcar with Bettendorf trucks belonged
to a
series of 25 cars and were later painted in the red and yellow
“The Western
Way” serif paint scheme after being serviced in the 1960s. Western
Pacific
was a Class 1 Railroad formed in 1903 in order to offer another
rail option
to the established Utah routes of the Southern Pacific. WP was
acquired in
1982 by Union Pacific Railroad.
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