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NTSB Investigating UP Track Maintenance Manager Fatality in Arkansas

Jennifer McLawhorn
May 7, 2024
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MCNEIL, Ark. – The NTSB is investigating a Union Pacific Railroad employee fatality that occurred in April in McNeil, Arkansas.
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FAMES Alert Issued After Track Worker Fatality

Jennifer McLawhorn
April 18, 2024
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MCNEIL, Ark. – The Fatality Analysis of Maintenance-of-Way Employees and Signalment issued an alert after a maintenance-of-way manager was fatally injured in Arkansas.
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Metra Outlines 2024 Construction Plan

Marybeth Luczak
April 5, 2024
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CHICAGO – Metra on April 3 detailed its construction program for 2024, covering station, track, road crossing, bridge, and signal/communications improvement projects along the Chicagoland commuter railroad’s 11 lines totaling nearly 500 route-miles. In…

STB Approves Savage Tooele Railroad Company to Construct 11 Miles of Rail in Utah

Jennifer McLawhorn
April 4, 2024
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SALT LAKE CITY – Savage Tooele Railroad Company (STR) has approval to build and operate 11 miles of rail in Utah that will connect to Union Pacific Railroad.
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1955 To Now: Union Pacific Shares Photos of MoW Workers

Jennifer McLawhorn
March 29, 2024
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OMAHA – The Class I shares three photos of Maintenance of Way workers from 1955 to today.
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NetControl Positions Union Pacific as Technology Trailblazer

Guest authors
March 20, 2024
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OMAHA –– Union Pacific made history on Jan. 6, 2024, when we became the first Class I railroad to modernize the “big three” core operating platforms: Positive Train Control (PTC), Computer-Aided Dispatch (CADx) and Transportation Management (NetControl…

Union Pacific reactivates the hump at Davidson Yard in Fort Worth

gobstopper
February 28, 2024
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Union Pacific has reactivated the hump at Davidson Yard in Fort Worth, Texas, to ease the burden on the classification yard at West Colton, Calif., where UP is expanding the small “pop-up” intermodal terminal it opened in the summer of 2021.

Union Pacific Begins Infrastructure Projects in Missouri

Jennifer McLawhorn
February 3, 2024
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TRENTON, Mo. – Union Pacific crews are working near Trenton, Missouri to replace 83,000 ties and 17 miles of rail.
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USDOT Awards $4.9B for Mega, INFRA Projects

Marybeth Luczak
January 27, 2024
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is distributing $4.9 billion to 37 nationwide projects through the FY 2023-24 Mega (National Infrastructure Project Assistance) and INFRA (Infrastructure for Rebuilding America) grant programs. Twelve rail-…

ICC Approves Highway/Rail Grade Crossing Projects

Marybeth Luczak
January 5, 2024
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has signed off on stipulated agreements to improve safety at highway/rail grade crossings in Cumberland and Stark counties. Total cost: $1.84 million.
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