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Hinkle, and Hermiston OR
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Bad news for this old railroad town, as Uncle Pete is just getting started chopping. First thing; Close the diesel shop. Then close the warehouses. And then switching operations, and everything else at Hinkle. Screw all these folks. They've been coasting too long already, doing nothing and collec...
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Hermosa Tunnels on Sherman Pass and why they are still there
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Someone from TO asked the question of why the Hermosa Tunnels on Sherman Pass haven't been removed as it looks like not much overhead to remove/excavate in todays age of removing tunnels. But there is a reason. To charge mountain rates the line has to have a mountain tunnel and UP keeps the Hermosa Tunn...
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New Vitural Railfan cam at Kearney Nebraska
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I had to see the UP through Nebraska for myself back in the early 1990's driving Highway 30 from Sydney NE to Grand Island and took video. What a fun day as I had to pull off somewhere to video the next train all day as they just kept on coming. Triple track mainline running 80 trains a day. Maybe the busiest s...
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UP 4014 "Big Boy" Scheduled runs for 2019
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Long hard road to restoration from static display to running condition. By April and May she'll be operating, so they say, under her own power. Steam. Oil fired steam at that. Most of these later units were converted from coal to oil back in the late '50s, and '60s. The 4014 will generate steam by burnin...
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Brazos Yard plans on hold sez UP
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Gotta be money. Lotsa money. Uncle Pete had planned to improve and enlarge Brazos Yard to better serve their customers along the Gulf Coast petro chem business, and move oil product in/out of refineries. Now they've postponed the expansion [url]https://www.railwayage.com/freight/union-pac...
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Update: Oakridge Manned Helpers and Hinkle Shutdown
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HHBob said the DPU's through Oregon Cascades dint work so well many months ago and finally the UP agrees. Oakridge is like 50 miles from Eugene and thoughts were at one time they/UP couldn't attract enough engineers to relocate but apparently they found a way. With the recent UP layoffs/thinnings it...
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We Can't Blame HHB
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https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article225922550.html
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Jim Vena: Union Pacific's $9 billion-man
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http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/01/09-union-pacific-stock-soards-as-investors-cheer-chief-operating-officer-pick Jim Vena: Union Pacific's $9 billion-man Railroad's stock price soars after announcement about Precision Scheduled Railroading-veteran's hire O...
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Laramie Wyoming UP hotspot now has a live railcam
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Just noticed it today maybe its first day and a great location Laramie on the UP. I spent the night here back in the early 90's shooting video. Just love the action and the scenery during summery weather in Laramie. Laramie a flat spot between grades going east or west. Noticed today that the westbounds...
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Bye bye
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Look at the beautiful engine they accidentally gave me towards the end of my reign.
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Happy Mistakes
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stUPid gave me this fine chariot on one of my last runs. I will probably shave with it tomorro.
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So I guess we have no UP members now judging by....
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HHB was our premier representitive of the UP and he is silent and perhaps gone forever. Hope he wasnt "silenced". So I guess we read the UP News that they produce for whats happening with the railroad today.
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Coming Down Sherman Hill
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I gather they were descending Sherman Hill: An eastbound freight train rear-ended another freight train Thursday night 18 miles west of Cheyenne, according to the Laramie County Sheriffs Office. The second train was parked.https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/10/06/crew-member-body-reco...
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Cindy can do it!!
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Union Pacific laying off 475, cutting 200 contract jobs The Associated Press October 23, 2018 01:38 PM Updated 24 minutes ago OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific will lay off 475 railroad workers and eliminate another 200 contract jobs by the end of the year to further reduce its expenses. The Omaha, Nebraska...
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Kansas City Southern
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Big boost is likely, along with UP because of Trump's 'deal' with Mexico. Both outfits cross each others borders going both ways. [url]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kansas-city-southern-upgraded-as-mexico-trade-deal-suggests-return-to-pre-trump-valuations-2018-08-29[/...
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Couple days ago Uncle Pete goes down ar Butler Yard
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Nice clean up of that mess... Somebody caught it on video. You can skip a buncha crap, 'cause it's damn near an hour time-wise. But pretty cool anyway! If ya like train vids. Uke do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM5fvxuzKxk Butler Yard is in Wisconsin BTW -- Edited by Uke on Saturda...
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Slick new commercial. Wow Uncle Pete, impressive!
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Yep. But now all that's missing is a song. Yep. Just like LAMCO, and their country-western themed good ol' boyz! UP is an older railroad, and they've gobbled up more smaller, weaker outfits than LAMCO, it's time for a song, or three! Something like... "Go, go, go Union Pacific" or some shit! [url]http...
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Creative bookkeeping a la CSX?
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Hard ta say, but since the two Class-Is don't compete in any areas that we know about, but maybe Uncle Pete's using CSX's tricky math these days. One can only speculate, 'cause their revenue/expense ratio (reality) is kept hush-hush, and only available to major stockholders. That's NOT regular fol...
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Bright Headlight Wasn't Working?
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http://www.cbs7.com/content/news/Train-partially-derailed-following-crash-in...
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This just in-UP layoffs at headquarters
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Union Pacific to layoff 750 US employees amid broader cost-cuttingThe layoffs, which represent about 8 percent of its management force, will largely hit employees in Omaha, Nebraska, where the company is based."Union Pacific for some time has leveraged employee attrition and technology to red...
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Whoops, Wrong Signal
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GALVA Union Pacific Railroads failure to conduct a risk assessment of a new light installation contributed to the probable cause for the collision of two UP freight trains in 2014 near Galva.The National Transportation Safety Board released in December an investigation report into the Sept. 25,...
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Another Bad Day
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KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) - A Union Pacific worker was hit and killed by a train while on the job in Kansas City, Kansas Tuesday. Union Pacific is investigating the fatal accident, which occurred in its rail yard near 26th and Bayard Streets. Kansas City, Kansas police were called to the rail yard around 1...
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Were the Headlights on Bright?
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Uh oh: TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) Two crewmembers have been hurt when two freight trains hauling new vehicles collided on Union Pacific property in Northeast Texas.UP spokesman Jeff DeGraff says four cars derailed early Tuesday in Texarkana, Texas.Authorities are trying to determine why the westbo...
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UP Downside
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http://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/train-derailment-in-spring/
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