August 11, 2022 | COVID, Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: North Platte Telegraph, August 8, 2022) Bailey Yard workers are more prone to give up on railroading after three years of layoffs followed by COVID-19, a North Platte rail union leader told an AFL-CIO virtual “town hall” last week. Mike Gage, president of...
August 11, 2022 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 11, 2022) Video from a locomotive camera shows that the operator of a Union Pacific maintenance-of-way vehicle turned in front of an Amtrak train and fouled the track just prior to a July collision in Oakland, according to the National...
August 10, 2022 | Memorials, News, UP
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, August 10 — Brother Ryan M. Jones, a member of BLET Division 103 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, passed away while on duty on July 28, 2022. He was 33 years old. Brother Jones hired out with the Union Pacific Railroad in July of 2014 as a conductor out of...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 2, 2022) Union Pacific has reactivated the hump at Davidson Yard in Fort Worth, Texas, to ease the burden on the classification yard at West Colton, Calif., where UP is expanding the small “pop-up” intermodal terminal it opened in the...
July 29, 2022 | Memorials, News, Obituary, UP
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, July 29 — Brother Keith W. Bass, a member of BLET Division 48 in St. Louis, Missouri, died on July 27 from injuries sustained in a crew van accident on July 26. He was 46 years old. A Union Pacific locomotive engineer, Brother Bass hired out in...
July 28, 2022 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Press release from the office of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, July 27, 2022) HOUSTON — Today, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced the City of Houston has delivered to Union Pacific Railroad a Notice of Intent to sue under the federal Resource Conservation and...
July 27, 2022 | Headlines, Technology, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 27, 2022) Wabtec will modernize 600 locomotives over a three-year period for Union Pacific in a deal valued at more than $1 billion, the largest such program in railroading history. Full story: Trains Magazine
July 26, 2022 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 25, 2022) Union Pacific is making the biggest change to its locomotive paint scheme in more than 20 years. It’s by no means a radical change. The traditional Armour Yellow and gray with red trim remains. But departing is the large...
July 22, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 20, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board on Wednesday denied a California poultry and feed producer’s request for an extension of an emergency service order covering Union Pacific grain trains. Full story: Trains...
July 22, 2022 | Headlines, Quarterly Income, UP
(Source: Union Pacific press release, July 21, 2022) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Corporation today reported 2022 second quarter net income of $1.8 billion, or $2.93 per diluted share. This compares to 2021 second quarter net income of $1.8 billion, or $2.72 per...
