(The following appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on June 8, 2011.)
OMAHA, Neb. — Nobody at Union Pacific or Burlington Northern Santa Fe wants a repeat of 1993 or 2008.
The flooding that swept through the Midwest in those years took out railroad bridges and crossing signals, washed out tracks and forced rail lines to suspend service for days at a time, delaying shipments of agricultural and manufacturing products and coal for power plants.
So far, this year’s floods haven’t led to any major problems along the rails in Nebraska or Iowa, but a few U.P. customers, including some in the Omaha area, have seen some service disruptions over the past few days.
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