Union Pacific Railroad News

I took this photograph on a cold and rainy morning, back in November of 2007. A southbound Canadian National transfer train has just recieved clearance to proceed on the Indiana Harebor Belt Railroad line, and is now crossing 31st Street in La Grange Park Illinois.

Kirkwood, MO - Kirkwood police and fire units resonded to a report of a person struck by a train at the Union Pacific Railroad tracks on Leffingwell Avenue around 4:25 p.m. Wednesday.

Some Keller residents are livid that a vintage passenger railroad car that Old Town merchants had hoped to restore was instead partly dismantled for salvage during Memorial Day weekend.

I took this photo recently after work one evening, in northwest suburban Des Plaines Illinois.

The writer, of Omaha, is a marketing director at Union Pacific Railroad. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces and an Iraq combat veteran.

City staff members are trying to set up a meeting with representatives of four government agencies, the Public Utilities Commission and two railroads to consider establishing "quiet zones" in central and south Modesto.

Almost two years after Martinez received funds to study a proposed bridge connecting downtown with Waterfront Park, the project remains in the conceptual stage.

Union Pacific Railroad reminds drivers to use caution at railroad crossings while traveling in their vehicles this Memorial Day weekend.

Jerry Paden, 57, Geneseo, died Thursday, May 24, 2012, at the KU Medical Center, Kansas City.

This photo, taken May 11, shows one of several Union Pacific communication poles that was recently discarded in the Gilman Gorge section of the Eagle River.

Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - About 115,000 concrete ties installed in the last two seasons of high-speed rail construction must be replaced after failing to meet standards for long-term durability, officials of the state and Union Pacific Railroad said Thursday.

Brenda Mainwaring, director of public affairs for Union Pacific Railroad, presents a check to representatives of the Council Bluffs Eagles of Honor project.

MANKATO, Minn. - Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Walkup Avenue between the Union Pacific Railroad and Route 176 will have closures from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Friday for construction work.

A As one effort to further promote train safety, the City of Lake Forest and the Union Pacific Railroad invite riders aboard the Public Safety Outreach Passenger Train on June 5. The vintage 1950s-era passenger train car will stop at the East Side Train Station in Lake Forest at 10:10 a.m. June 5 and will return to Lake Forest at 11:40 a.m. Space ... (more)

Jim Dolan spent half his legal career in Washington, D.C., and the other half in Omaha, working for Union Pacific Railroad.

Union Pacific Railroad workers arrived on Monday to complete the final segment of the quiet zone at Vasquez Road in Winter Park.

The bodies found at Lake Manawa are those of a Plattsmouth, Neb., mother and son, according to Council Bluffs police.

Now, I've found no history of Thomas Durant and his home life. He may not have robbed his mother; but he did everybody else.