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Hermiston objects to remote control train tests

(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 3.) HERMISTON, Ore. — City officials are trying to block Union Pacific Railroad from running trains through town by remote control. For the second time in about two weeks, a city official has...

U.P. to expand remote control

(The following article by Stacie Hamel was posted on the Omaha World-Herald website on October 30.) OMAHA, Neb. — Motorists stopped at a Council Bluffs railroad crossing might notice something different about some of the locomotives slowly passing by. There are...

U.P. to expand remote control

(The following article by Stacie Hamel was posted on the Omaha World-Herald website on October 30.) OMAHA, Neb. — Motorists stopped at a Council Bluffs railroad crossing might notice something different about some of the locomotives slowly passing by. There are...

Hermiston says ‘no’ to remote-control trains

(The following article by Dean Brickey was posted on the East Oregonian website on October 30.) HERMISTON, Ore. — The city has put up a roadblock to Union Pacific Railroad’s idea of operating trains through town by remote control. Ray Jones, assistant city...

Hermiston says ‘no’ to remote-control trains

(The following article by Dean Brickey was posted on the East Oregonian website on October 30.) HERMISTON, Ore. — The city has put up a roadblock to Union Pacific Railroad’s idea of operating trains through town by remote control. Ray Jones, assistant city...

Rail-yard switch stirs up worries

(The following article by David Danelski was posted on the Press-Enterprise website on May 26. Tim Smith is the BLET’s California State Legislative Board Chairman.) RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Some workers in Union Pacific’s sprawling switching yard in Colton and...