OMAHA, Neb. — Cost-cutting, efficiency gains, and higher revenue per carload helped Union Pacific post record second quarter financial results despite declines in traffic and revenue and the impact of flooding that shut down key routes in the Midwest. The railroad’s operating income rose 8%, to $2.2 billion, even as revenue declined 1%, to $5.5 […]
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific confirmed today that it has shut down the hump at Proviso Yard in Chicago and curtailed operations at several other yards across its system as the railroad reduces the number of times cars are handled en route. “Proviso, in particular, was a very old and inefficient hump yard, still using […]
Follow along with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn in this third compilation video from Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video focuses on Big Boy’s trek through Iowa on its way to Mason City, Iowa. […]
Follow along with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn in this second compilation video from Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video focuses on Big Boy’s trek through Iowa with a stop in Boone, Iowa. […]
Follow along with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn in this first compilation video from Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video focuses on Big Boy’s trek through Nebraska with a stop in Omaha, Neb. […]
Follow along with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn in this first compilation video from Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video focuses on Big Boy’s trek through Nebraska with a stop in Omaha, Neb. […]
No. 4014 approaches the U.S. Route 30 overpass as it departs North Platte on Thursday morning. Zach Marlow NORTH PLATTE, Neb. – Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 has departed North Platte a little after 10 a.m. on Thursday morning headed east for Grand Island. However, the train has lost its contingent of covered hoppers […]
A Union Pacific train creeps along slowly westward at Gibbon, Neb., as flood waters touch the base of the track ballast. Flood waters and poor operating conditions have forced the railroad to keep UP Big Boy No. 4014 at the North Platte, Neb., yard until further notice. Jim Wrinn NORTH PLATTE, Neb. – Due to […]
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone No. 227, left, and Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014. Two photos, Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – When Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 pulls into the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth July 19, it will be within a few feet of one of its contemporaries: […]
No. 4014 heads east through the curves at Archer, Wyo., on Monday as it departs Cheyenne to kick off its next public tour. Zach Marlow CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s departure from its home base in Cheyenne today was delayed more than four hours while the crew “made adjustments” to the […]
Rick Johnson; Trains staff “We’ve done a diesel and an electric; now we need to do a cutaway of a steam locomotive.” Those words from a retired Kalmbach Media vice president sent a bit of a shiver down my spine as well as sparked a challenge I found irresistible. I’d love to do it, but […]
Union Pacific SANDERSON, Texas – Union Pacific has experienced a bridge fire on the Sunset Route south of Dryden, about 18 miles east of Sanderson. According to the railroad, the fire occurred on Sunday evening and the line is expected to reopen “later this week.” According to spokeswoman Kristen South, at about 6:30 p.m. on […]
