Community 05162018
Big Shoulders Fund Brings STEM to Underrepresented Students
In Chicago’s inner-city schools, phrases like “I’m just not good at math” echo among low-income Latino and African-American students. Many of these students don’t consider a career in the STEM fields a possibility. Read Story
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Heritage 05072018
Steam Update: Modern Bolts and Big Announcements
Before we get to the details of the Steam Team’s big May 10 announcement, here's a look at how new technology is being applied to locomotive No. 4014’s restoration.
Community 04302018
Union Pacific and National Park Foundation Invite You to Explore America's Backyard
Close your eyes and picture a majestic landscape. Listen for chirping birds and the rustling of leaves. For Union Pacific Project Manager Josh Ford, a visit to Montana’s Glacier National Park changed his perspective – he found a place of hope.
Innovation 04262018
Positive Train Control: Complex Technology Framework Explained
It's only fitting that as the 150th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike approaches – a monumental effort that joined a nation – that American railroads are implementing Positive Train Control (PTC), a technology framework that brings the rail industry into a new era.
Community 04122018
Wyoming High School Display Honors Transcontinental Railroad
Jim Gilman’s high school art class in Powell, Wyoming, is taking its learning outside the classroom by transforming academic hallways and alcoves into lifelike interactive museum exhibits.
Heritage 03222018
Putting the 'Big Boy' Back Together
Since disassembling UP No. 4014, the ‘Big Boy,’ the Union Pacific Steam Team has cleaned, inspected and repaired nearly every part of the locomotive down to its smallest piece.
Community 02082018
'The Tech' Stokes Curiosity in Tomorrow's Innovators
Deep in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, the next generation of innovators is putting on their safety goggles, rolling up their sleeves and diving into a new world of science. And they’re not even old enough to drive.
Heritage 01032018
A Look Inside the Spine of the 'Big Boy'
Union Pacific's steam team finally is getting down to the bones of UP No. 4014, the 'Big Boy.' The locomotive's big steel front engine bed has been exposed and has a glossy new coat of black paint.
Innovation 12052017
How America's Top Railroad Learns to Fly
We've all seen them – those miniature helicopters flying over back yards, ball parks and playgrounds. For most people, drones are little more than a high-tech toy waiting to be unwrapped under the Christmas tree.
Insights 11212017
New Rail Shuttle Facility Helps Feed a Nation
Missouri grain farmers know as well as anyone that time is money; and now thanks to a new facility near Hamilton, Missouri, those farmers are saving plenty of both.
Heritage 10272017
Locomotive Honors, Remembers Those Who Served
The design of Union Pacific's heritage locomotive goes back to the 1940s, but its inspiration came about a year ago.
Insights 09292017
Wind Rides on the Back of Union Pacific Trains
Drive down an interstate in Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, California or Kansas, and you’re bound to spot them – giant wind turbines lined up like soldiers in perfect rows.
Community 09202017
Railroader Breaks Glass Ceiling, Balances Career and Family
It’s the first day at a new job, and the unisex bathroom door doesn’t properly shut. Tami Johnsen did what any good leader would do: she drove to a nearby hardware store, bought a new locking door knob and fixed the problem. Two decades later, Johnsen, Union Pacific’s general superintendent of the Harriman Dispatching Center, still tackles new challenges head on.
Community 09052017
Technology, Teamwork Shine During Deval Diamond Project
The replacement of the aging five-track Deval diamond, located in Chicago's northwest suburbs, is improving commuter and freight transit times.
Heritage 08252017
Steam Update: Refurbishing an Articulated Locomotive Requires Plenty of Flexibility
With the 2017 steam season now completed, the UP Steam Team, which operated No. 844 during three week-long trips this summer, can now give its full attention to the restoration of the Big Boy No. 4014.
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