August 12, 2021 | Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, August 11, 2021) NEW YORK — Union Pacific Chairman, President and CEO Lance Fritz on Aug. 5 responded to Surface Transportation Board Chairman Marty Oberman’s July 22 letter to Class I railroad CEOs requesting information on the extent of...
August 9, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Palestine Herald-Press, August 6, 2021) PALESTINE, Texas — The Anderson County Commissioners Court accepted a donation of $14,500 from a “Go-Fund Me” group to help with its ongoing legal battle to keep Union Pacific Railroad in Palestine. A court date for a...
August 5, 2021 | BNSF, Headlines, UP
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, August 4, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Container fluidity is a big issue on the rail side. Class I railroads BNSF and Union Pacific have made temporary service adjustments to cope with capacity constraints. The former metered traffic between...
August 5, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: CBS Chicago, August 4, 2021) CHICAGO — Chicago has a cargo congestion problem – and for small businesses, that means big problems. One company has had tens of thousands of dollars ‘worth of goods stuck for months at a suburban rail yard. Full story: CBS...
August 3, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Reuters, August 2, 2021) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Corp. said on Monday it reopened the Keddie-Portola railway line, which the top U.S. railroad operator was forced to shut because of the Dixie fire in California. Full story: Yahoo...
August 3, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: American Journal of Transportation, August 2, 2021) NEW YORK — Under fire from importers and exporters for service cutbacks and from rail employees for lay-offs and followed by a seven-day rail service suspension from West Coast ports in July, Union Pacific...
August 2, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, UP
(Source: Courthouse News Service, August 1, 2021) CHICAGO — There is a man in Union Station with a box of late-excuse papers. He hands them out to job commuters whenever the Metra trains are running late. He hands them out often. Full story: Courthouse News...
July 30, 2021 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, July 29, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board opened the public docket Thursday for its ongoing investigation of the July 29, 2020, train derailment, and fire near Tempe,...
July 29, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Reuters, July 27, 2021) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Corp said on Tuesday that the Dixie fire in California had reached a main railway line in Plumas County, making it unsafe to run trains and forcing a temporary closure. Full story: Yahoo...
July 26, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: High Plains Journal, July 25, 2021) DODGE CITY, Kansas — On April 29, Union Pacific announced that it is building a state-of-the-art grain transload facility within its Global IV intermodal terminal in Joliet, Illinois, that will reduce supply-chain costs for...
