Weekly Service Update

Announcement Number: CN2015-9
Categories: Weekly Service Updates
Posted Date: February 4, 2015

To Our Customers,

Velocity remained near the top end of our 52 week range this week even as carloadings increased by 4 percent week-over-week.  Winter Storm Linus arrived at the tail end of last week, and we anticipate that it will have some impact on our operation this week as we dig out from the fifth largest blizzard in Chicago history.

Below are some network statistics from last week:

  • Carloadings for the week ending Jan. 31, 2015, were 186,370. This is 3 percent more than the same week last year.
  • AAR system velocity was 25.4 mph, down 0.1 mph compared to the previous week.
  • System terminal dwell improved to 29.2 hours, down 0.5 compared to the previous week. 
  • In total, we had 294,581 cars online, which is nearly 2,800 lower than the previous week.

Thank you for your business. Please contact the National Customer Service Center or your Union Pacific representative with any questions.