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Show I Railroad Resumes Operation After Storm Interruption Union Pacific has now resumed normal operations after experiencing experienc-ing the longest interruption to through service in the history of the railroad, due to unprecedented unprecedent-ed weather conditions suffered a-long a-long its lines through western Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. For seven consecutive weeks since January 2, through service was interrupted time and again by repeated blizzards, heavy snows winds ranging up to 80 miles per hour and temperatures ranging down to 51 degrees below zero. The best efforts of men and machinery mach-inery were of no avail against the constantly moving snow which in many places drifted 30 feet high. Employes and officers worked untiringly, un-tiringly, but the . work of days was often wiped out in" hours as new gales returned to blow the snow back from where it had just . been removed at such effort |