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UP toying with monster trains
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UP toying with monster trainsUnion Pacific Railroad unleashed what critics are dubbing the monster train on unsuspecting Southern Californians earlier this year, according to Dennis Wyatt of the Manteca, Calif., Bulletin. The train was a record setting 3.4 miles long or almost three times the l...
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Union Pacific cleaning contaminated soil
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Union Pacific cleaning contaminated soil (The following story by Michael Pommier appeared on The Fort Scott Tribune website on August 19, 2010.) FORT SCOTT, Kan. A local lot of contaminated soil is being fixed after 10 years of testing. According to Gary Richards, Kansas Department of Health and E...
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Union Pacific settles with feds over forest fire costs
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Union Pacific settles with feds over forest fire costs (The following story by Denny Walsh appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on August 17, 2010.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. Union Pacific Railroad Co. has paid more than $17.3 million to settle the federal government's claim of damages and suppressio...
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Cracked wheel blamed for UP derailment in Oakland
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Cracked wheel blamed for UP derailment in Oakland (The following story appeared on the San Jose Mercury News website on August 5, 2010.) OAKLAND, Calif. A crack in a wheel is what caused a freight train to derail at 34th Street in Oakland on Tuesday afternoon, a Union Pacific spokesman said Wednesday...
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1,500 gallons of diesel leak from derailed UP remote control locomotive
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1,500 gallons of diesel leak from derailed UP remote control locomotive in Salt Lake City (The following story by Bob Mims and Samuel Weigley appeared on The Salt Lake Tribune website on August 4, 2010.) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah About 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel spilled Tuesday from a punctured tanker c...
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Union Pacific Announces Dennis J. Duffy to Retire; Lance M. Fritz Appointed Executive Vice President — Operations
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Union Pacific Announces Dennis J. Duffy to Retire; Lance M. Fritz Appointed Executive Vice President Operations (The following story appeared on the Wall Street Journal Market Watch website on July 30, 2010.) OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific Corporation today announced Dennis J. Duffy, vice chairman...
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UP adds 3D rail simulators
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UP adds 3D rail simulatorsPS Technology (PST), a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation, has added a 3-D simulation training program to its capabilities, according to a press release. The program produces realistic 3-D simulation training solutions for a variety of industries in...
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Fines mount in Union Pacific drugs case
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Fines mount in Union Pacific drugs case (The following story by Joe Ruff appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on July 26, 2010.) OMAHA, Neb. Federal fines levied against Union Pacific grew by $101 million in July as more illegal drugs were found on trains coming from Mexico. Fines now total $16...
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Union Pacific's CEO Young says U.S. Congress discouraging rail investment
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Union Pacific's CEO Young says U.S. Congress discouraging rail investment (Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Theo Keith on July 23, 2010.) NEW YORK Union Pacific Corp.s chief executive officer said U.S. lawmakers are discouraging needed investment even as federal transit autho...
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UP reports record quarterly earnings
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UP reports record quarterly earningsOMAHA, Neb. -- Union Pacific Corporation has reported 2010 second quarter net income of $711 million, or $1.40 per diluted share, compared to $465 million, or $0.92 per diluted share, in the second quarter 2009. Second quarter 2009 net income included $72 mill...
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Quarterly earnings preview: Union Pacific
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Quarterly earnings preview: Union Pacific (The following appeared at Zacks.com on July 19, 2010.) NEW YORK An improving U.S. economy, significant surge in automotive shipments, and a sharp rebound in many of the companys end markets are expected to fuel future growth of Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE...
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Retired UP conductor wants depot preserved
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Retired UP conductor wants depot preservedUnion Pacific Railroad is willing to sell its aging, weather-beaten station in east Bakersfield, Calif., but so far it has received no offers, the Bakersfield Business Commentary Examiner reports. "Currently we use the building as office space f...
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Nebraska jury says UP owes injured worker $560,000
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Nebraska jury says UP owes injured worker $560,000 (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 19, 2010.) GERING, Neb. Union Pacific Corp. should pay a worker who was injured when she tripped over an object on the job $560,000, a Scotts Bluff County jury ruled. The jury ruled last week in f...
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Union Pacific CEO meets with Wyoming employees
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Union Pacific CEO meets with Wyoming employees (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 16, 2010.) GREEN RIVER, Wyo. Union Pacific CEO Jim Young has held a private meeting with railroad employees in southwest Wyoming. After the meeting in Green River on Thursday, company spokeswom...
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Los Angeles police find pot stash in railroad tanker
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Los Angeles police find pot stash in railroad tanker (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 13, 2010.) LOS ANGELES A late-night police pursuit ended with a drug bust and the discovery Monday of thousands of pounds of marijuana concealed in a railroad tank car that entered the U.S. fr...
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Union Pacific derailment in Kansas spills 43 cars of coal
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Union Pacific derailment in Kansas spills 43 cars of coal (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 12, 2010.) SILVER LAKE, Kan. Union Pacific crews have been working to clean up mounds of coal that spilled in northeast Kansas when 43 rail cars derailed. Authorities said no injuries we...
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Union Pacific note exchange ends
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Union Pacific note exchange ends (The Associated Press circulated the following on July 12, 2010.) OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific Corp. said Monday its offer to exchange cash and new notes for debt expiring in 2019 has ended. The company said holders agreed to exchange $375.9 million in old notes. It wil...
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Union Pacific Iron Thong Wannabe?
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Nebraska Rep. wants hearing on EPA documents
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Nebraska Rep. wants hearing on EPA documents (The following story by Joseph Morton appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on July 7, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Rep. Lee Terry on Wednesday called for a congressional hearing on claims that Environmental Protection Agency officials destroyed do...
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Analysis: UP profits should set records even with slow economic growth
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Analysis: UP profits should set records even with slow economic growth (The following analysis by Toby Kolstad appeared on the Gerson Lehman Group website on July 5, 2010.) Summary Like many of its North American railroad cousins, the UP reacted swiftly to the precipitous fall in traffic in 2009 by...
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Union Pacific helps build U.S. economy
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Union Pacific helps build U.S. economy (The following story by Marc Gunther of Fortune magazine appeared at CNN.com on June 23, 2010.) NEW YORK The strawberries on your cereal. Your laptop, cell phone, and TV. The coal that's burned to power them. The car you drive. The roof over your head. We may work...
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Union Pacific says EPA destroyed records it wanted
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Union Pacific says EPA destroyed records it wanted (The Associated Press circulated the following on June 23, 2010.) OMAHA, Neb. Union Pacific Corp. asked a federal judge Wednesday to order the Environmental Protection Agency to stop destroying records the railroad requested about lead contam...
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Union Pacific Chief Young Sees ‘Elongated’ Economic Rebound
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Union Pacific Chief Young Sees Elongated Economic Rebound (The following story by Angela Greiling appeared on the Bloomberg Businessweek website on June 16, 2010.) Union Pacific Corp., which transports Asian auto imports, expects an elongated economic recovery, Chief Executive Officer Jim Y...
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UP trains sideswipe each other in western Nebraska
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UP trains sideswipe each other in western Nebraska (The Associated Press circulated the following on June 12, 2010.) ROSCOE, Neb. Two trains headed in opposite directions apparently sideswiped each other near Roscoe in western Nebraska. Union Pacific Railroad spokesman Mark Davis says the con...
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UP notes safety milestone at Nebraska rail crossings
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UP notes safety milestone at Nebraska rail crossings (The following appeared on the North Platte Bulletin website on June 9, 2010.) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. Union Pacific is celebrating a milestone in safety -- more than 200 days without a collision at a grade-crossing in Nebraska. The last private-cro...
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