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UNION PACIFIC RAILROADST JOSEPH & GRAND ISLAND RAILWAYThis RARE vintage piece of Railroad History is made by ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY for the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. This lantern is marked THE ADAMS and WESTLAKE COMPANY CHICAGO THE “ADAMS” UNION PACIFIC. PATENTED JUNE 8, 1886 last date NOV. 30, 1897. The heavy clear glass globe is etched St J & G I Ry, no cracks or chips, some staining and cloudiness. Frame is a little loose, surface rust, no burner or fuel font. Please view photos and Email with questions. Thanks for looking.St. Joseph and Grand Island RailwayFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad (SJ&GI) was created in about 1879 when the St. Joseph and Western Railroad (SJ&W) built a line from Hastings to Grand Island, Nebraska. Upon completion of the line, the SJ&W was reorganized into the SJ&GI. Doniphan, Nebraska, was plotted in 1879 at about the halfway point between Hastings and Grand Island and was named for John Doniphan, an attorney for the railroad. The SJ&GI was essentially part of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for most of its existence. When the UP built a shorter cutoff between Hastings and Gibbon in 1914, use of the SJ&GI tracks north of Hastings gradually declined. The line mostly was abandoned by 1989. The only remaining segment of the line between Hastings and Grand Island (the SJ&GI continued to St. Joseph, Missouri) is a few miles between the Union Pacific mainline through Grand Island and the coal-fired power plant south of Grand Island. The power plant receives two to three unit coal trains per week.
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