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Human error blamed for runaway train carsDUNSMUIR, Calif. - A railroad maintenance worker likely didn't set the brakes on his high-rail truck on Wednesday afternoon, allowing the truck and the six cars it was towing to roll out of control, forcing railroad crews to intentionally derail it north of...
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Train lessons learned hard way
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Train lessons learned hard way (The following story by Janet Jacobs appeared on the Corsicana Daily Sun website on June 17, 2009.) CORSICANA, Texas Drivers of 2,000-pound cars put their lives on the line against two 400,000-pound locomotives Tuesday in downtown Corsicana, all in an effort to save...
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Family wins in train death lawsuit
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Family wins in train death lawsuitNEPHI, Utah More than 11 years after 38-year-old Shelly Elder was struck and killed by a train he never saw coming, his family can find some relief knowing he was not at fault, the Salt Lake City Deseret News reports. A jury recently awarded at least $250,000 in damage...
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Couple drops lawsuit against UP
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Couple drops lawsuit against UPROSEVILLE, Calif. -- A Roseville couple has dropped their lawsuit against Union Pacific Railroad that alleged the company's Roseville rail yard devalued their home, the Press-Tribune reported. Malia and Michael Benson, who live on Fourth Street a few hundred yar...
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Union Pacific hits coal loading milestone
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Union Pacific hits coal loading milestone (The Associated Press circulated the following on May 23, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. Since 1984, Union Pacific railroad has hauled enough coal out of northeast Wyoming to power all the homes in the U.S. for five years. The railroad recently loaded its 200,000th co...
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UP keeps furloughed workers at hand
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UP keeps furloughed workers at handThe rail-shipping business is off by double-digit percentages, but railroad giant Union Pacific Corp. doesn't want to worry about meeting demand if and when it rebounds, according to the Wall Street Journal. For that reason, almost a third of Union Pacific's 5,...
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Unusual odor hospitalizes rail workers
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Unusual odor hospitalizes rail workersBENICIA, Calif. - Two Union Pacific workers in Benicia were treated at a Bay Area hospital Friday morning (May 15) after smelling an unusual odor originally thought to have come from the Valero refinery, city officials told the San Jose Mercury News. Valero o...
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Train sprays oil on Minn. homes
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Train sprays oil on Minn. homesWINONA, Minn. - East End residents got a slimy surprise Friday when their homes and cars were sprayed with oil from a locomotive on a nearby rail line, state officials told the Winona Daily News. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is investigating the incident, wh...
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UP declares quarterly dividend of 27 cents a share
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UP declares quarterly dividend of 27 cents a share (Union Pacific issued the following on May 14, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. The Board of Directors of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) has declared a quarterly dividend of 27 cents per share on its common stock, payable July 1, 2009, to stockholders of re...
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U.P. gathering comes amid uncertainty
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U.P. gathering comes amid uncertainty (The following article by Joe Ruff was published in the Omaha World-Herald on May 14, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific Chairman and CEO Jim Young faces shareholders Thursday in the midst of a recession that has driven down profits while prompting spending cut...
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Railroad workers hold burglary suspect
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Railroad workers hold burglary suspectBEAUMONT, Texas - Employees of Union Pacific Railroad held a burglary suspect until Beaumont police could arrest him, the KFDM Web site reports. Police say they received a report at about 4 p.m. Monday (May 11) of a suspicious man in the 3900 block of Bristol an...
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Union Pacific, Burlington Northern profits beat analysts’ estimates
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Union Pacific, Burlington Northern profits beat analysts estimates (Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on April 23, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. and Union Pacific Corp., the two biggest U.S. railroads, said profit dropped les...
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Burning rail bridge forces derailment
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Burning rail bridge forces derailmentLEON COUNTY, Texas - A Union Pacific freight train derailed early Thursday after the engineer initiated an emergency braking procedure to try to avoid a burning railroad bridge in a remote rural area of Leon County, the KWTX Web site reports. The crew of the tra...
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Union Pacific plans more job cuts after profit drops
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Union Pacific plans more job cuts after profit drops (Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on April 23, 2009.) NEW YORK Union Pacific Corp., the second- biggest U.S. railroad, reported a less-severe drop in profit than analysts expected on savings from lower fue...
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UP's first-quarter earnings drop 18 percent (The following story by Joe Ruff appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on April 23, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific reported today an 18 percent drop in net income for its first quarter, driven by decreased demand in the global recession. The Omaha...
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UP should salt the ground so nothing will ever grow there again.
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Union Pacific uproots 85-year-old gardener (The following appeared at WOWT.com on April 14, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. You don't need to remind 85-year-old Jake McCourt that it's planting season. He's been tilling the same soil for a half-century. Turns out he's been working on the railroad which explai...
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"We'll send someone out to look at the situation.............."
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Ever-riled Berkeley eyes dead birds on trackBERKELEY, Calif. - For three months, a group of dead seagulls lay near the tracks at Amtrak's Berkeley stop on University Avenue, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Chronicle reader Stan Huncilman, who believed the animals might have been felled by W...
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UP CEO got nearly $12 million compensation in 2008
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UP CEO got nearly $12 million compensation in 2008 (The Associated Press issued the following on April 3, 2009.) OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific Corp. boosted President and Chief Executive Jim Young's compensation 20 percent, to nearly $12 million, last year, according to an Associated Press analysis...
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Union Pacific seen raising rail rates
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Union Pacific seen raising rail rates (The following story appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on April 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Union Pacific Railroad plans to hold firm on pricing despite declining demand for rail freight transport, an investment analyst said in a report April 3 after...
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Trains carrying less Wyoming coal
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Trains carrying less Wyoming coalCASPER, Wyo. -- Union Pacific is loading less coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin so far this year. Union Pacific reports on its Web site that it loaded 11.5 percent less Powder River Basin coal during this first three months of this year compared to last year. The...
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Crew error, no conductor's log, stretching exercises not performed
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Severe weather causes damage, derails UP train near Missouri Valley (The following story by Dave Roberts appeared at www.Action3news.com on March 24, 2009.) HARRISON COUNTY, Iowa Severe weather ripped through Harrison County, Iowa causing damage and injuries. Three tractor trailers tipped o...
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Talk about a black eye!! False Proceed Signalsi
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http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/affp/Fpbrowse.aspx Jan 2008 to March 2009 -- Edited by Calvin on Sunday 29th of March 2009 07:00:33 PM
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Well how else are these drugs gettin' across the border?
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They ain't flown in. Or walked across...or on trucks. Trains! Specidically Union Pacific trains! DOJ Sues Union Pacific Over Drug Stashes on Trains Largest U.S. Rail Carrier and DHS Clash on Trade Issue By JASON RYAN WASHINGTON, March 19, 2009 The Justice Department has filed a pair of lawsuits ag...
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Another Scary Trip
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http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0309/599836.html This was even on the local news tonight. I really like the last line in the story below. No way it could have been any fault of the truck driver, I just know it. Two hurt in train derailment in Grady County By MICHAEL KIMBALL NewsOK.com Publis...
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Old woman's house burned down, cat killed
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Train sparks fire; woman loses home, catDENVER - About 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Angela Kircher and her 92-year-old mother Margery Kusulas were sitting in Margery's windowless bedroom, the Denver Post reports. Margery was having trouble with her TV set and Angela was trying to fix the problem. Unknown t...
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