18 Facts About Union Pacific

Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, with which it shares a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western, Midwestern and Southern United States.

In 1996, the Union Pacific merged with Southern Pacific Transportation Company, itself a giant system that was absorbed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation, both headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Meanwhile, Union Pacific worked to construct a faster, and more direct substitute for the original climb to Promontory Summit.

Union Pacific closed facilities in Kansas City, Hinkle, Oregon, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 2019.

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Union Pacific ordered the first diesel streamliner, the largest fleet of turbine-electric locomotives in the world, and still owns the largest operational diesel locomotive .

In 2017, Union Pacific decided to repaint all locomotives which were not in the current corporate colors.

Union Pacific continues to use a small number of "heritage" steam locomotives and early streamlined diesel locomotives.

Union Pacific has been rated the worst company to work for in 2019 by 247wallst.

However, Union Pacific crews continue to operate the trains under a purchase-of-service agreement.

Since then, Union Pacific has satisfied its common carrier requirements by hosting Amtrak trains.

Between May and November 1994, Union Pacific trains derailed five times, killing at least 4 people.

In Logan, Utah, Union Pacific altered a construction agreement to require the city to pay maintenance fees in perpetuity for an upgraded crossing, a mandate which was against state code.

The second bill, HB405, would have required Union Pacific to replace their ageing fleet of Tier 0 switching locomotives with hydrogen or electric engines by 2028, due to Utah having very poor air quality in winter months.

Ultimately, HB181 passed, and HB405 was dropped after Union Pacific made voluntary commitments to replace several tier 0 switching locomotives with less polluting tier 2 locomotives, as well as to test some all electric ones in the Utah Roper Rail Yard.

In 2007, Union Pacific Railroad worked with the US EPA to develop a way to reduce locomotive exhaust emissions.

Union Pacific Railroad Museum is a former Carnegie library in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that houses artifacts, photographs, and documents that trace the development of the railroad and the American West.

Union Pacific pays upkeep on the privately owned building, which houses part of Union Pacific's corporate collection, one of the oldest in the United States.