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UP with 2 derailments in Oregon
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January 6th lacking any celestial aspect that would derail 2 trains on different routes in one day in Oregon but yet it happened. Maybe one of those "Super Nova Windows" of dark energy coming from space. UP Derailment near Durkee Loop, OR UP Derailment Coalca OR
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UP has Uh-Oh Albina yard Portland Or.
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1349 N Russell St - Google Maps Buncha Autoracks on thier sides, until more is posted yer just gonna haffta take my word on it.
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UP Derailment and Bridge Collapse Near Elkhart, Iowa
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Mars square Pluto and a rash of derailments. This derailment on the UP a train headed to Des Moines and appears another bridge collapse the cause of this one. Little bridges just as important as big bridges. UP's derailment cleanup forces stretched a little thin right now. UP Derailment and Bridge C...
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Nearly 40 train cars derailed near Dixon, Illinois
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Nearly 40 train cars derailed near Dixon, Illinois | wqad.comDIXON, Ill. Nearly 40 train cars derailed in Lee County, Illinois Thursday morning leaking fuel, acid and oil. Union-Pacific Railroad notified the Lee County Sheriff's Office just before 1:50 a.m. Dec. 24, 2020 that two of their westb...
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What?
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I knew one HAWG who wore a hearing aid for years and everybody knew it. https://tinyurl.com/y6n55slg
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Whack!
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UP cut off 10% of its dispatchers. OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific has cut more than 60 dispatching positions at its Harriman Dispatching Center in Omaha and its joint dispatching office in Spring, Texas, this week.The affected dispatchers, who are management employees, were notified on Thursday and F...
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Bridge Out of Service
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Looks like former SP territory, wondering if this is a mainline that's going to be down for awhile: https://tinyurl.com/y5cvrvcq
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BullDozer Pursuit
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https://www.wowt.com/content/news/Construction-equipment-stolen-driven-into-field-south-of-Plattsmouth-571046901.html
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UP lawsuit over robots
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Heard UP is being sued over its new attendance policy...Also heard UP sued back.... What is the new said policy? Those poor bastards already had a fucked up one to begin with......
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Union Pacific disruption in Oregon
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UP has the same disruptions as the BNSF in the GPNW as back to back "pineapple expresses" and the atmospheric river above dumping lotza rain has caused many disruptions in service. Union Pacific disruption in Oregon
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History of the UP from the 'transcontenetal' act...
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...signed by none other than Honest Abe Lincoln himself. Yep. And it's all right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUDv87_LjCs About an hour in length, but very interesting, and enlightening. Makes me wanna visit "The Equality State" again.
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More UP news
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Bridge fire somewhere. Musta been a branch line, or a secondary track. Somewhere on the UP system. http://www.wsiltv.com/story/40353467/fire-engulfs-union-pacific-railroad-bridge Illinois. Somewhere in Illinois -- Edited by Uke on Wednesday 22nd of May 2019 06:40:12 PM
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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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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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