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Union Pacific Railroad - Coverage from 2019 on Progressive Railroading
Freight News
- Iowa terminal to serve as Midwest hub for new intermodal service
- STB: U.S. Class I employment slide continued in October
- Union Pacific earns Gold Medallion for veteran support
- Union Pacific implements PTC on 93 percent of route miles
- UP awards $5.3 million in community grants
- Slower freight-rail volume hit UP's bottom line in Q3
- R. J. Corman to provide switching, transloading at UP-served Texas industrial park
- UP devises intermodal terminal app for truck drivers' mobile devices
- UP shuffles roles in marketing and sales, Loup Logistics
- UP CFO Knight to retire; Hamann named successor
- NTSB investigation prompts safety recommendations to Class Is, ASLRRA
- STB reveals three Class Is were 'revenue adequate' in 2018
- Union Pacific rail car donated for student training
- UP recognized as 'military friendly' employer
- Union Pacific reports PTC progress
- Genesee & Wyoming short line employs two Tier 4 locomotives in California
- U.S. Class I workforce contracted in June, STB data shows
- California short line turns 108
- UP posts higher profit, lower expenses in Q2
- Union Pacific's Kinney County Railport to be site of self-driving vehicles
- Houston-area port, UP complete first phase of major rail project
- Little Rock Port Authority's board re-elects Hendricks chair
- UP recognizes 46 companies for safe hazmat practices
- NTSB issues preliminary report on ethanol train derailment in Texas
- Howard Energy expands rail-served bulk terminal facilities in Texas
- FRA awards grants for CREATE project, rail upgrades in Florida and Michigan
- Amtrak, freight railroads continue service suspensions due to flooding
- Corpus Christi port begins channel improvement project to serve energy market
- UP's 2018 'Building America' report addresses cybersecurity
- Louisiana commits funds to improve rail access at Port of Greater Baton Rouge
- San Gabriel trench named transportation project of the year
- Oregon Sens. Wyden, Merkley express concerns over UP layoffs
- Union Pacific: PTC operating on 80 percent of route miles
- UP to serve logistics park near Houston
- UP plans $20 million project for New Mexico block swap yard
- UP to close Rochelle intermodal ramp as part of Chicago-area simplification plan
- Port of Longview initiates rail study, taps Clay to head business development
- Union Pacific 'pauses' Brazos Yard construction
- STB to hold hearing on Class Is' demurrage, accessorial charges
- Union Pacific to mark transcontinental railroad anniversary
- NS diverts Missouri traffic due to flooding
- Port of Beaumont opens terminal overpass to improve traffic flow
- Port of Muskogee obtains grant for rail upgrade project
- ACE partners to start grade separation in Southern California
- Railroads' flood-ravaged Midwestern tracks trigger FRA emergency declaration
- G&W's Rail Link to serve another Louisiana port
- UP announces new executive roles for Panzer, Hamann, Grosz
- OmniTRAX adds Scott, Garin to board
- Union Pacific: PTC equipment now in place on all required route miles
- UP set income record, advanced Unified Plan in Q4
- UP, Berkshire Hathaway among 'most admired' companies for 2019
- Vista Proppants opens rail-served transload terminal in Texas
- Oakland port logged record cargo volume in 2018
- Pin Oak acquires expansion site near KCS line in Corpus Christi
- Union Pacific taps former CN operations chief Vena as COO
Transit News
Articles
- PTC update: Class Is press ahead to meet implementation deadline
- Annual wood tie market update 2019
- UPS: Weather's been severe, but Class Is are missing the on-time mark regardless
- Rising Stars 2019: Terry Atkinson
- Railroads explore blockchain's potential
- Kansas City Southern employs PSR to improve service performance, forge a traffic-growth foothold
- PTC progress report 2019: Commuter railroads
- Genesee & Wyoming: On the industrial development fast track
- It’s taking a team effort for Union Pacific to roll out its version of PSR
- Class Is continue to gain traffic boost from logistics units
- From the editor: Our most-read news items of 2018
- Railroads employ new, old approaches to strengthen bridges