Talk:Union Pacific Railroad

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Union Pacific Railroad was one of the good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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July 28, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
July 11, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
July 17, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Did you know nomination

Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by 97198 (talk) 09:46, 23 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that Union Pacific is the owner of history's largest Steam AND Diesel Locomotives? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_DDA40X

Created by Amerail (talk). Self-nominated at 18:00, 18 March 2022 (UTC).Reply

Ineligible. Not raised to GA status or expanded sufficiently. CN issues in the article as well. (t · c) buidhe 18:18, 18 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Ownership

Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Why is there no mention at all of who owns Union Pacific Railroad in this article? Stevenmitchell (talk) 01:43, 20 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

This page was redesigned at the edge.

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Ownership