November 3, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control, UP
(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...
November 2, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control, UP
(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...
November 2, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control, UP
(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...
October 30, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(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...
October 30, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(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...
October 19, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(San Francisco television station CBS 5 posted the following article on its website on October 19.) PAJARO, Calif. — Authorities are investigating what went wrong at a Union Pacific Railroad yard in Pajaro last week when freewheeling train cars amputated the...
October 19, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(San Francisco television station CBS 5 posted the following article on its website on October 19.) PAJARO, Calif. — Authorities are investigating what went wrong at a Union Pacific Railroad yard in Pajaro last week when freewheeling train cars amputated the...
August 17, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Robin Turner of the Western Mail appeared at ICWales.co.uk on August 11.) WALES — A steelworker was found crushed to death at Port Talbot’s giant Corus plant where there had been “constant, intermittent faults” with...
August 17, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(The following story by Robin Turner of the Western Mail appeared at ICWales.co.uk on August 11.) WALES — A steelworker was found crushed to death at Port Talbot’s giant Corus plant where there had been “constant, intermittent faults” with...
May 30, 2006 | Headlines, Remote Control
(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...