Members of the SMART Railroad, Mechanical and Engineering Department, or SMART-MD, have unanimously ratified a new contract with Union Pacific, the union announced today (Sept. 2, 2025). The agreement ...

Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have overwhelmingly approved a new contract with Union Pacific, the union announced today. IBEW International President Kenneth W. Cooper ...

Less than 3% of Union Pacific trains are over 15,000-feet, and when we operate them, we do so in specific areas designed to handle them. In fact, we haven’t operated a 20,000-foot train in 2024.

Metra and Union Pacific may be embroiled in a power struggle, but a significant federal ruling in the commuter railroad’s ...

Omaha-based Union Pacific Railroad’s announcement Tuesday that it is acquiring the Norfolk Southern Railway — a move that would create the first transcontinental, coast-to-coast rail system ...