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Show to an enormous wartice transportation trans-portation job, the Union Pacific can look back upon another major accomplishment during, the past three-quarters of a ' century. Built at a time when the west was primarily the province prov-ince of Indians and buffalo, the railroad was responsible to a great extent for the economic development of the 11 states which it serves. Union Pacific To Celebrate Diamond Jubilee On May 10, the Uriion Pacific railroad will celebrate its Diamond Dia-mond Jubilee, marking the 75th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, which in 1869 united the Central Pacific and Union Pacific in America's first transcontinental trans-continental railroad. Of its new equipment, the Union Pacific is its "Big Boy" engine the largest, most powerful power-ful locomotive of its kind in the world. Twenty of these steam-powered steam-powered monsters have been in service since 1941 and are helping help-ing the railroad meet increased demands to handle more and faster shipments of vital war material. A comparison between the Big Boy and the old Seminole, one of the Union Pacific's first locomotives, loco-motives, highlights the progress in equipment during the past 75 years. The wood-burning Seminole Semi-nole puffed along at 25 miles and hour; the Big Boy races through the mountains of Utah and Wyoming Wyo-ming at a maximum speed of 70 MPH. Nearly three times as long as the 50-foot Seminole, the Big Boy is 133 feet and weighs 1,189,500 pounds, as compared with the 115,000 pounds of the old-timer. Travelers who in 1869 braved the perils and tedium of a western west-ern journey averaged HO'i hours on the long run between Chicago Chica-go and San Francisco. Today the distinctive yellow, red and gray Union Pacific streamliners cover the same territory in less than 42 hours. Now devoting all its facilities |