UP No. 4141 rests at Ney Yard in Ft. Worth, Texas on July 4, 2008. Steve Schmollinger COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Early this morning Union Pacific’s Jenks locomotive shop in North Little Rock, Ark., outshopped another diesel. That happens every day. In this case, the unit was a specially-painted SD70Ace No. 4141 in honor of […]
Big Boy No. 4014 will steam between Cheyenne, Wyo., and Ogden, Utah, in May 2019. CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Trains Magazine and Special Interest Tours will offer a multi-day Big Boy No. 4014 chase bus on the Union Pacific locomotive’s inaugural run in May 2019, promoters said Friday. The massive 4-8-8-4 will operate from its homebase […]
WASHINGTON — Union Pacific has defended penalties it plans to impose on shippers who don’t load and unload cars quickly or who make last-minute changes to unit train service schedules. “We are certain the proposed tariffs are fair, balanced, and reciprocal in nature,” Kenny Rocker, UP’s executive vice president of marketing and sales, wrote in […]
Lance Fritz, Union Pacific CEO Union Pacific NEW YORK — With major changes under way at Union Pacific, which is cutting costs and shifting to an operating plan based on Precision Scheduled Railroading, what does it mean for the railroad’s long-running steam program? “We’re not sure. But right now, nothing,” UP CEO Lance Fritz told […]
Watch this 100-car Union Pacific coal train at the November 2018 Colorado Model Railroad Museum Extreme Trains event. […]
Watch this 100-car Union Pacific coal train at the November 2018 Colorado Model Railroad Museum Extreme Trains event. […]
Watch a 283-car Union Pacific coal train climb the 2.5 percent grade to the Quartz Mountain summit. Powered by 11 locomotives — two on the head end, with five more sets distributed through the train. The train is three scale miles long (200 actual feet) and weighs 30,000 prototype tons. Engineers Luke Brendsel and Scott Warren […]
Watch a 283-car Union Pacific coal train climb the 2.5 percent grade to the Quartz Mountain summit. Powered by 11 locomotives — two on the head end, with five more sets distributed through the train. The train is three scale miles long (200 actual feet) and weighs 30,000 prototype tons. Engineers Luke Brendsel and Scott Warren […]
OMAHA, Neb. — The first phase of Union Pacific’s shift to an operating plan based on the principles of Precision Scheduled Railroading appears to be going smoothly. Federal regulators have not received shipper complaints about service and are satisfied that the railroad is keeping its customers informed as it methodically rolls out operational changes on […]
Union Pacific workers took an aerial drone photo of the wreck of two UP freight trains on Oct. 4. An eastbound train struck a parked train near Sherman Hill, killing two railroaders. Union Pacific via the National Transportation Safety Board WASHINGTON — Safety investigators are citing air brake system problems on a Union Pacific train […]
Derailed tank cars from a Union Pacific unit ethanol train burn near Iowa cornfields on March 10, 2017. Ted Ellis WASHINGTON — National Transportation Safety Board officials say Union Pacific’s “impressive” response following a March 2017 derailment is a sign the railroad’s maintenance and government oversight were lacking before the accident. NTSB officials met Tuesday […]
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific is accelerating the rollout of its Precision Scheduled Railroading operating plan after encouraging signs from the first round of changes on the eastern portion of its system. “While early, I am pleased with the initial results as we’ve seen improvements in several key performance indicators on our network,” CEO Lance […]
