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Say Cheese! Union Pacific Donates Photography Equipment to Chicago Youth

Across its grand 23-statewide network, Union Pacific finds unique ways to support niche communities and their needs.

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Union Pacific Devoting Spaces for Employee Prayer and Meditation

Union Pacific employees at the railroad’s Omaha and Spring, Texas, facilities now have a dedicated space to pray, meditate or take a quiet moment. Driven by employee feedback, these spaces are meaningful to employees who practice a religion requiring prayer at specific times, such as Muslims and Orthodox Jews, and those simply seeking time to meditate or reflect.

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Training Future Railroaders

A summer visit by Union Pacific employees to the Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas, recently turned into a win-win situation with an equipment donation benefiting current students – and future railroaders.

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Union Pacific Is Hiring, All Aboard

If you are looking for a new career or your first full-time job out of high school, Union Pacific may be the right place to start a new journey for a company that helps build America. Just ask Justin Ward, a nine-year train crew veteran located in Roseville, California, who says working for Union Pacific has changed his life for the better. When it came time for his son, Austin Biggs, to find a job, Ward recommended Union Pacific. His son is now a first-year train crew employee.

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Community 12202022

UP VETS Give Santa a Lift and an Assist in Houston

Jolly Old St. Nicholas exchanged his sleigh and reindeer for a train trip around Houston Saturday with Union Pacific’s Spirit Locomotive No. 1943 – the locomotive that honors the U.S. Armed Forces – as he and Union Pacific veterans delivered toys to more than 7,000 children in need in Houston.

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Mission Accomplished: Union Pacific Supports U.S. Military Moves

Can you imagine the coordination and work involved to ship tanks across the country? When the U.S. military is tackling this challenge, it turns to Union Pacific and Loup Logistics.

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Santa May Deliver the Toys, But Union Pacific Brings the Tree

Union Pacific delivered a nearly 45-foot-tall blue spruce to The Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, as part of a longstanding tradition that dates to 1931, when railroad crews first began cutting down and delivering the city’s official Christmas tree.

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Community 11102022

Union Pacific Strengthens Sustainability With ‘Construction’ of a New Foundational, Community Ties Giving Program Pillar

The new Environmental Sustainability pillar allows Union Pacific to support projects led by environmental nonprofits and community-based organizations that align with the company’s Community Ties Giving Program mission and sustainability goals.

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