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Western Pacific Employee Timetables

This page was last updated on January 18, 2021.

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(The information shown below comes from a spreadsheet compiled by Bob Pecotich, originally dated March 10, 1998, and updated through March 4, 2008. Additonal dates were furnished by Bill Wimmer on November 21, 2014.)

(UtahRails does *not* have copies of these timetables. Please don't ask.)

(Additional information is available in Jeff Asay's "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad through Timetables and Maps", published by Feather River Rail Society in 2006)

Construction Era (1905 to 1909)

	ETT No.	Date	Notes
Western Pacific (construction)	1	Nov 9, 1908	Salt Lake City to Shafter
Western Pacific (construction)	2	Aug 2, 1909
Western Pacific (construction)	3	Aug 23, 1909	First District, Salt Lake City to Wendover Second District, Wendover to Elko

Eastern Division (1910 to 1964)

Portola, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah

• First Subdivision, Portola to Winnemucca
• Second Subdivision, Winnemucca to Elko (included paired track)
• Third Subdivision, Elko to Wendover (included paired track)
• Fourth Subdivision, Wendover to Salt Lake City

	ETT No.	Date	Notes
Eastern Division	1	Jan 16, 1910
Eastern Division	2	Jun 5, 1910
Eastern Division	3	Aug 22, 1910
Eastern Division	4	Oct 30, 1910
Eastern Division	5	Nov 27, 1910
Eastern Division	6	Jun 18, 1911
Eastern Division	7	Nov 12, 1911
Eastern Division	8	Jan 21, 1912
Eastern Division	9	Jun 9, 1912
Eastern Division	10	Apr 6, 1913
Eastern Division	SA/10	Apr 20, 1913
Eastern Division	11	May 3, 1914
Eastern Division	12	Apr 12, 1915
Eastern Division	13	Dec 5, 1915
Eastern Division	14	Sep 24, 1916
Eastern Division (USRA)	1	Nov 3, 1918
Eastern Division (USRA)	2	Jan 5, 1919
Eastern Division (USRA)	3	Jan 8, 1919
Eastern Division (USRA)	4	Aug 3, 1919
Eastern Division	1	Mar 28, 1920
Eastern Division	2	Jul 18, 1920
Eastern Division	3	May 14, 1923
Eastern Division	4	Nov 25, 1923
Eastern Division	5	Aug 1, 1924	paired track
Eastern Division	6	May 3, 1925
Eastern Division	7	May 24, 1925
Eastern Division	8	Nov 14, 1926
Eastern Division	9	May 8, 1927
Eastern Division	10
Eastern Division	11	May 6, 1928
Eastern Division	11	May 6, 1928
Eastern Division	12	Jun 9, 1929	designates Roper as SLC terminus
Eastern Division	13	Nov 24, 1929
Eastern Division	14	Jun 1, 1930
Eastern Division	15	Jan 4, 1931
Eastern Division	16	Jun 7, 1931
Eastern Division	17	Sep 27, 1931
Eastern Division	18	Apr 24, 1932	Shifted division boundries
Eastern Division	19	Jun 19, 1932
Eastern Division	20	Oct 2, 1932
Eastern Division	21	Nov 12, 1932
Eastern Division	22	May 10, 1933
Eastern Division	23	Nov 5, 1932
Eastern Division	24	Jun 17, 1934
Eastern Division	25	Apr 1, 1935
Eastern Division	26	Dec 12, 1936
Eastern Division	27	Jun 6, 1937
Eastern Division	28	Jul 9, 1937
Eastern Division	29	Sep 15, 1937
Eastern Division	30	Feb 6, 1938
Eastern Division	31	Jun 12, 1938
Eastern Division	32	Jun 11, 1939
Eastern Division	33	Jun 17, 1940
Eastern Division	34	Feb 2, 1941
Eastern Division	35	Jul 9, 1941
Eastern Division	36	Jul 5, 1942
Eastern Division	37	Feb 15, 1943
Eastern Division	38	Jul 1, 1945
Eastern Division	39	Jun 2, 1946
Eastern Division	40	Nov 10, 1946
Eastern Division	41	Jul 6, 1947
Eastern Division, Suppl.	1	Sep 1, 1947
Eastern Division	42	May 30, 1948
Eastern Division	43	Oct 10, 1948
Eastern Division	44	Mar 20, 1949	first showing California Zephyr
Eastern Division	45	Oct 2, 1950
Eastern Division	46	Apr 30, 1950
Eastern Division	47	Apr 29, 1951
Eastern Division	48	Sep 30, 1951
Eastern Division	49	Mar 1, 1952
Eastern Division	50	Apr 27, 1952
Eastern Division	51	Sep 28, 1952
Eastern Division	52	Apr 26, 1953
Eastern Division	53	Apr 25, 1954
Eastern Division	54	Jan 9, 1955
Eastern Division	55	Apr 24, 1955
Eastern Division	56	Oct 30, 1955
Eastern Division	57	Sep 30, 1956
Eastern Division	58	Nov 10, 1957
Eastern Division	59	Sep 28, 1958
Eastern Division	60	Oct 25, 1959
Eastern Division	61	Apr 24, 1960
Eastern Division	62	Apr 30, 1961
Eastern Division	63	Oct 28, 1962
Eastern Division	64	Apr 26, 1964
Eastern Division	65	Oct 25, 1964

Western Division (1910 to 1964)

(Western Division timetables are not covered here because they did not cover WP operations in Utah.)

(For coverage of WP's Western Division, two books by Jeff Asay are highly recommended: "The Iron Feather" published in 2018, and "Track and Time" published in 2006.)

Consolidated, Eastern and Western Divisions (1964 to 1982)

	ETT No.	Date	Notes
(consolidated WP)	1	May 2, 1965	Published with associated Special Instructions
(consolidated WP)	2	Jun 1, 1967

Districts

	ETT No.	Date	Notes
Salt Lake District	1	Jul 19, 1970	Winnemucca- Salt Lake City
Sierra District	1	Jul 19, 1970	Oroville-Winnemucca
Valley District	1	Jul 19, 1970	Oakland-Oroville

Consolidated, Eastern and Western Divisions

	ETT No.	Date	Notes
Consolidated Western & Eastern Divisions	1	Jun 11, 1972
	2		(Timetable No. 2 was not issued)
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	3	Jul 28, 1974
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	4	Apr 25, 1976
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	5	Apr 30, 1978
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	6	Apr 27, 1980
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	7	Apr 26, 1981
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	8	Oct 25, 1981
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	9	Apr 25, 1982
WP, SN, Tidewater Southern	10	Oct 31, 1982

(The last WP timetable was No. 10, issued on October 31, 1982; UP control of WP was granted on December 22, 1982, with an effective date of January 1, 1983; the two were formally merged on June 17, 1987.)

Union Pacific

Union Pacific System Timetable No. 7, dated July 17, 1983 (WP added as Western District)

UP-WP Merger Timeline

Timeline of the merger of Western Pacific and Union Pacific

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