Western Pacific Employee Timetables
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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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