Inside Track
October 2013 Archive
Safety
Tucson Committee Targets Downtown Area with Safety Messages
Oct. 31, 2013 02:18 PM CDT
Spearheaded by the Downtown Tucson Rail Safety Committee – a local community organization – the effort combines a variety of promotional materials, all with a central theme: Stay off railroad tracks.
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Safety Billboards Have New Look, Message in Six Cities
Oct. 21, 2013 02:11 PM CDT
Each new billboard includes the reminder "Always Expect a Train," along with an eye-catching visual and attention-grabbing headline.
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Railroad Photo Backdrop Prompts UP Employee Action
Oct. 16, 2013 11:00 AM CDT
"The photo had ‘wrong’ written all over it," said Hammons, a Union Pacific manager of centralized train dispatching at Omaha’s Harriman Dispatching Center. "I felt it was my responsibility to make the company aware of how these portrait styles were communicating the wrong message to children about railroad tracks."
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Educators Tour UP's West Chicago Training Center
Oct. 14, 2013 03:33 PM CDT
"As educators prepare the workforce of the future, it's important to understand not only the technical skills sets we hire for, but also our safety culture," said Jamie Herbert, AVP–Human Resources.
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San Antonio UP Employees Man the Chow Line
Oct. 9, 2013 08:50 AM CDT
The volunteer crew, which consisted of UP employees from Operating, Damage Prevention, Claims and Signal departments, spent the morning and lunch hour Sept. 27 prepping TV dinners, bagging snacks, slicing vegetables, and then serving a nutritious lunch of Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes.
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UP in the Pink and in the Rain to Fight Breast Cancer
Oct. 7, 2013 03:51 PM CDT
Fourteen years and counting, UP steps up and steps out to support Komen for the Cure!
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