Big Purchases Mark '54 For Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad year end review highlights heavy purchases and construction. Eight million dollars in new yard facilities, more diesel and gas turbine locomotives, and forthcoming Astra Dome passenger cars dominate the year. New yards at Ogden Utah Kansas City Kan East Spokane Wash and North Platte feature automated systems and expanded track. The Challenger streamliner is reinaugurated January 10 alongside new City of Denver service. Union Pacific ordered 259 diesel units 15 gas turbines and 800 freight cars, plus 200 PFE refrigerator cars. Titanium ore deposits announced on UP land in Wyoming’s Iron Mountain may shape future materials supply. UP earned four awards for safety travel promotion and transportation maps.
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Four Year Gas Tax Take Estimate Large
Nebraska drivers will pay more state gasoline tax at the present rate over the next four years than they contributed during the entire 14 years from 1925 through 1938. C Russell Lockwood executive secretary of the Nebraska Petroleum Industries Committee predicts. Nebraska motorists paid $106,196,000 in gas tax from 1925 through 1938, but 1954 to 1957 tax collections are forecast to exceed $115 million.
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Union Pacific Net Income Dips Slightly for Eleven Months
Union Pacific Railroad reports eleven months ending November 30 with net income down 1.8 percent from 1953, while gross operating revenues drop 9.7 percent. November alone shows net income rising to 6.99 million on 41.88 million in revenue, against prior year levels.
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University Sets Ag Days Slate at Nebraska campus
Officials of the University of Nebraska college of agriculture plan Ag Days on January 14 and 15 inviting alumni home economics graduates parents and friends. Dr Frank Eldridge directs planning with registration at 12 30 p m in the College Activities Building and an afternoon program featuring Football Highlights of 1954. Kirk Fox from Successful Farming Magazine will speak and Chancellor Clifford M Hardin will address a banquet. Saturday includes a new house demonstration in the campus department area.
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