June 22, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, TTD, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, June 22, 2022) The debate about how to manage visual inspections in the face of advances in safety technology continues. This time it’s railroad carmen defending the importance of visual inspections for brake testing and maintenance. Full...
June 21, 2022 | CN, Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, June 20, 2022) NEW YORK — Two separate and unrelated coal train derailments occurred this weekend. The first occurred on Union Pacific on Friday evening in Lawrence, Kan., just west of Kansas City. The second derailment...
June 20, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 17, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board on Friday ordered Union Pacific to live up to service commitments it has made to deliver corn to a large California poultry and feed producer. The emergency service order,...
June 20, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Hays Post, June 19, 2022) Authorities and railroad officials are investigating a massive train derailment in Douglas County. Just after 5p.m. Friday, coal cars detached from an engine on Union Pacific tracks at North 1900 Road, according to the Douglas County...
June 20, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Kansas City Star, June 19, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A drone’s infrared technology was used this weekend to help check for dangerous hot spots after about 40 rail cars of a Union Pacific Corp. coal train derailed near Lawrence, police said in a release. Full...
June 20, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: Click2Houston, June 17, 2022) HOUSTON — Workers like Jesse Torres, along with people going to school or work are forced to wait sometimes past eight hours as 100 trains a day from three different railroad companies block intersections, blow loud horns and...
June 16, 2022 | Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 15, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Union Pacific has asked federal regulators to dismiss a shipper’s complaint that claims the railroad violated its common-carrier obligations by providing unreliable service and unilaterally reducing local...
June 15, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 13, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board, making clear its unhappiness with service recovery plans filed by the four largest U.S. Class I railroads, will require those railroads to correct deficiencies in service...
June 10, 2022 | Headlines, Railroad Security, UP
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, June 9, 2022) OMAHA, Neb. — The much-publicized theft of goods from trains at the port of Los Angeles has made its way into a Nebraska courthouse. A Singapore company, Ocean Network Express, has sued Omaha-based Union Pacific over packages...
June 10, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Associated Press, June 9, 2022) TEMPE, Ariz. — A broken rail was the probable cause of a fiery freight train derailment and subsequent bridge collapse in Arizona nearly two years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its investigative report...
