Union Pacific Archives

December 02, 2014
Class I

STB to weigh key trackage rights case

The Surface Transportation Board has decided, somewhat reluctantly, to thrash out a trackage rights dispute raised by a BNSF request to acquire “terminal trackage rights over a single track jointly owned by Kansas City Southern Railway Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company.”

November 25, 2014
Class I

UP begins Canada-to-California CBR service

Union Pacific’s Can-Am Corridor linking western Canada with the western U.S. entered a new era on Nov. 24, 2014, when the first unit train of Canadian crude rolled across the international border at Eastport, Idaho, headed for a distribution terminal near Bakersfield, Calif. The 97 loaded tank cars, owned by Phillips 66, were powered by two locomotives on the head end, plus a single distributed power unit on the rear.

November 12, 2014
Class I

Big-box bonanza

Railroads are searching for ways to keep intermodal moving, and growing, on a capacity-constrained network.

October 30, 2014
Regulatory

UP’s new mobile classroom for emergency responder training

Union Pacific, in collaboration with The Firefighters Education and Training Foundation, has converted a boxcar into a mobile classroom, expanding its fleet of training equipment used to educate emergency responders.

October 23, 2014
Class I

UP 3Q profit rises

Union Pacific said Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 its third-quarter earnings rose 19% measured against the comparable quarter in 2013, to $1.37 billion, or $1.53 per share, from $1.15 billion, or $1.24 per share, a year ago.

October 16, 2014
Class I

New Mexico Border Authority awards feasibility study to HNTB

The New Mexico Border Authority has selected HNTB Corp. perform a comprehensive study determining the feasibility of a new rail bypass and international rail border crossing near the Santa Teresa, N.Mex., Port of Entry into Mexico. The results of this initial work, if deemed feasible, will guide the state of New Mexico and its associates in developing the new bypass and border crossing.

September 16, 2014
Class I

Seattle chides BNSF on tunnel safety

Seattle emergency officials are urging BNSF Railway to improve safety procedures related to a tunnel within the city now used for increasing amount of crude-by-rail (CBR) traffic.

September 12, 2014
Class I

UP says its cops are tops

Union Pacific’s Police and Security team recently earned accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA), “joining a prominent group recognized for complying with the highest law enforcement standards,” the railroad announced on Sept. 11, 2014.

September 08, 2014
Commuter/Regional

Metra sets interim UP West Line service plan

Metra said Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 that its Union Pacific West Line riders will see alterations to midday and weekend train schedules when a major rail replacement for the line project gets under way next Monday, Sept. 15.

September 05, 2014
C&S/IT

Guerdon Sterling Sines, 1928-2014, railroad computer systems pioneer

Guerdon Sterling Sines, who retired in 1990 as the Union Pacific’s Vice President-Information & Communication Systems, died Aug. 27, 2014, from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 85.