The organization behind the line, called the Omaha Belt Railway, was incorporated two years earlier, in 1883.
Clark, who was a former president of the Union Pacific - eager to work for Gould's growing empire.
This acquisition of the Omaha Belt Railway from the Union Pacific was viewed as a masterfully enacted business coup in later years.
[4] That use of combined resources was the subject of a later dispute between the railroad companies which they carried to the US Railway Commission.
A small portion of the Belt Line Railway is still in use on the extreme south end of the line, which now serves as a "spur" (a dead end railroad track that provides access to one or more industries) to several South Omaha industries near Dahlman Avenue.