May 3, 2024 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, May 3, 2024) A Union Pacific track maintenance manager was killed when he was struck by an excavator operated by a contract worker, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on a fatal April 11 incident near...
May 2, 2024 | FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety, UP
(Source: Associated Press, May 1, 2024) Union Pacific managers undermined the U.S. government’s efforts to assess safety at the railroad in the wake of several high-profile derailments across the industry by coaching employees on how to respond and suggesting they...
April 25, 2024 | Headlines, Quarterly Income, UP
(Source: Associated Press, April 25, 2024) Union Pacific said it made $1.64 billion, or $2.69 per share, in the first quarter of 2024. That’s higher than last year’s $1.63 billion, or $.2.67 per share. Shipping volume was down 1% in the quarter. Union Pacific said it...
April 19, 2024 | Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, April 17, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board today closed the book on its investigation of Union Pacific’s record use of congestion-related embargoes in 2022 – but not before scolding the railroad for failing to comply with board orders and...
March 18, 2024 | Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 15, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board yesterday announced that it denied Union Pacific Railroad’s request to keep certain required, temporary employment-data reporting confidential. Meanwhile, Ancora Holdings Group LLC...
March 16, 2024 | FRA, Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, March 13, 2024) Jim Vena’s opening remarks Wednesday at the J.P. Morgan 2024 Industrials Conference could easily be seen as a rebuttal to one man: Amit Bose, the chairman of the Federal Railroad Administration. Full story: Freight...
March 14, 2024 | BNSF, FRA, Furloughs, Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: Progressive Farmer, March 11, 2024) Recent layoffs by Class 1 railroads Union Pacific (UP) and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) have not only raised alarms that safety may be compromised but shippers are complaining service has been poor. The Federal...
March 1, 2024 | FRA, Furloughs, Headlines, STB, UP
Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Amit Bose yesterday told Union Pacific Railroad CEO Jim Vena that the company’s furloughs of maintenance of equipment (MoE) workers jeopardizes the safety of railroad workers and the public. “It has come to the...
February 15, 2024 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety, UP
(Source: The Gazette, February 11, 2024) As Colorado lawmakers this month prepare to do something that Congress has been incapable of for more than a year — debate meaningful rail-safety legislation — Union Pacific, state regulators and officials in Grand County are...
February 15, 2024 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Sacramento Bee, February 12, 2024) A Union Pacific train carrying 118 tons of coal derailed Sunday due to a track defect and dumped its contents into and around Plumas County’s Feather River, according to railroad officials and the California Department of...
