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...
July 31, 2024 | FRA, Headlines, UP
(Source: Reuters, July 26, 2024) U.S. railroad Union Pacific interfered in a federal safety audit after employees were coached how to respond, prompting the federal rail agency to end the review, the agency and the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee said on...
July 26, 2024 | Headlines, Quarterly Income, Train Length, UP
(Source: Trains.com, July 25, 2024) Union Pacific’s profits rose in the second quarter despite a sharp drop in coal traffic. Quarterly operating income increased 9%, to $2.4 billion, as revenue grew 1%, to $6 billion. Earnings per share rose 7%, to $2.74. UP’s...
July 16, 2024 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Cowboy State Daily, June 1, 2025) Four days after the golden spike was driven for America’s first transcontinental railway linking the nation’s coasts, the Cheyenne Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers received its charter May 14, 1869. Full story: Cowboy...
July 12, 2024 | News, Remote Control, Top News, UP
Just days after an explosive New York Times investigative report exposed the dangers of remote control technology, the Union Pacific launched a wide-ranging initiative to implement remote control locomotives (RCLs) in Las Vegas. Brother Matt Parker, Chairman of the...
May 28, 2024 | GCA Elections, News, UP
Officers and guests at the Union Pacific-Southern Region GCA’s quadrennial meeting on May 20. ____________________ James Logan Jr. of BLET Division 620 (Fort Worth, Texas) was reelected by acclamation to the office of General Chairman at the Union...
May 17, 2024 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, May 16, 2024) A communication breakdown over granting permission for a train movement into the yard, as well as regarding placement of a portable derail device, was the probable cause of the August 2022 fatality of a Union Pacific conductor at a...
May 17, 2024 | CN, CSX, Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, May 16, 2024) Canadian National, CSX, and Union Pacific last week asked a federal appeals court to set aside the Surface Transportation Board’s new reciprocal switching rule, which will allow sole-served shippers in terminal areas to request...
May 13, 2024 | BNSF, CSX, News, Railroad Safety, UP
As publicly traded railroad corporations held their annual meetings this week, the BLET criticized railroad management for opposing safety reforms that would improve railroad operations for both workers and the communities that the railroads serve. “This week, CSX,...
May 9, 2024 | Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Trains.com, May 8, 2024) Freight train operations across the U.S.-Mexican border should be as seamless as they are across the U.S.-Canadian border, Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena told a shipper group last week. At gateways to and from Mexico, in most cases,...
