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Union Pacific Railroad hosts 150th anniversary celebration at Union Station in Portland | OregonLive.com
Portland resident Phil Heid, 95, sat in a wheelchair under the shade, looking over a fleet of locomotive passenger trains parked in the sun at Union Station.
He was there Saturday morning for Union Pacific Railroad's 150th anniversary celebration, a free, two-day event marking the creation of a rail line brought about by President Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Pacific Railway Act on July 1, 1862. Now, Union Pacific links 23 states west of the Mississippi River by rail.