January 10, 2025 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: News West 9, January 10, 2024) A ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 19 will honor the Union Pacific workers who died in the Dec. 18, 2024 Pecos, Texas train derailment. The ceremony will take place at the West of the Pecos Museum at 4 p.m. Sull story:...
January 9, 2025 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, December 19, 2024) Eddie Hall, national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union that represents engineers, said in a statement that the derailment is “a reminder that much more needs to be done to make...
December 20, 2024 | Derailment, Fatality, News, Railroad Safety, SLB Elections, Top News, UP
Locomotive engineer Clay Burt, a member of BLET Division 212 in Sweetwater, Texas, was severely injured and passed away shortly after arriving at the hospital. Images: courtesy of Reeves County Texas ____________________ Two Union Pacific train crew members were...
December 17, 2024 | Amtrak, BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, UP
(Source: Trains.com, December 17, 2024) Railroads appear to have the manpower resources they need to handle volume growth as we head into the New Year. Three of the country’s six Class I railroads have more train and engine (T&E) employees than they did a year...
December 16, 2024 | BNSF, Coal, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains.com, December 16, 2024) Wyoming and Montana filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to end coal-mining leases in the Powder River Basin, which is the main source of coal hauled by BNSF Railway and...
December 13, 2024 | Headlines, Technology, UP
(Source: Trains.com, December 13, 2024) Artificial intelligence is weaving itself into the daily operations of big U.S. railroads, helping managers make data-backed decisions about operating plans and identify trends among virtually any t process. Full story:...
November 15, 2024 | Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, November 14, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board has taken Union Pacific to task for an ongoing lack of cooperation in a new decision regarding an issue with the railroad’s effort to construct a 6-mile rail line in Arizona’s Maricopa and Pinal...
October 24, 2024 | Headlines, Quarterly Income, UP
(Source: Union Pacific press release, October 24, 2024) Union Pacific Corporation today reported 2024 third quarter net income of $1.7 billion, or $2.75 per diluted share. This compares to 2023 third quarter net income of $1.5 billion, or $2.51 per diluted share....
September 26, 2024 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 19, 2024) As BNSF Railway, CSX, and Norfolk Southern continue to sign tentative contract agreements with their labor unions well in advance of the start of national negotiations, one U.S. Class I railroad has been conspicuously absent:...
September 26, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 25, 2024) With a dockworkers strike looming at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, Surface Transportation Board Chairman Robert E. Primus has asked BNSF Railway and Union Pacific to provide regulators with information on how they will...
