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...
September 25, 2024 | News, Top News, UP
Ballots were mailed last week to BLET members eligible to vote on a tentative implementing agreement regarding Metra’s takeover of services from the Union Pacific Railroad. Ballots were mailed to 307 members. UP has provided operating crews to Metra since its purchase...
August 23, 2024 | GCA Elections, News, Top News, UP
Officers, members, and guests at the UP-Eastern District GCA’s quadrennial meeting in Omaha, Neb., on August 14, 2024. _____________________ Chad Lambert was reelected to his second term as General Chairman during the Union Pacific-Eastern District General...
August 19, 2024 | News, Top News, UP
As a result of an agreement reached with BLET last year, BLET’s engineers employed at Union Pacific are supposed to be working under a negotiated schedule that provides for a four-day rest period after 11 days on the job. But the railroad has been slow to honor its...
August 13, 2024 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, August 9, 2024) The nation’s largest railroad has told the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union that Union Pacific isn’t getting enough work out of its engineers anymore under the new schedules and had to hire more workers...
