Innovation
Innovation 10262021
Union Pacific Launches New 'Learn My Name' Tool to Build Inclusiveness
If you are lucky enough to pronounce someone’s first name correctly, then good luck with their last name. In the U.S. alone, there are at least 151,000 different family names. Now, Union Pacific has a new tool allowing employees to audibly record and phonetically spell names within the company directory.
Innovation 10202021
Union Pacific Executive Honored with Three Awards, Including 2021 ‘Railway Woman of the Year’
Union Pacific’s Beth Whited, executive vice president and Chief Human Resource Officer, was honored with three top industry and business awards in October, with one organization calling her a “decisive and thoughtful leader” whose commitment to diversity and inclusion has given the railroad industry “wider depth.”
Innovation 09302021
Union Pacific Testing Autonomous Cranes That Operate Like High-Tech Robots
You’ve heard of self-driving vehicles. How about self-operating cranes?
Innovation 08192021
Big Boy Flexes Its Muscles with Positive Train Control
Big Boy No. 4014, Union Pacific’s 80-year-old legendary locomotive, is now equipped with one of the rail industry’s newest technologies – Positive Train Control (PTC), an advanced system designed to automatically stop a train before certain incidents occur.
Innovation 08132021
Diamond in the Rough: How the UP Team Hustled to Earn New Coal Business
You often hear it in the news – decreasing coal demand as cleaner, renewable energy sources take over. But did you know steel-making coal is actually a booming market?
Innovation 06222021
Plastics and Sustainability: How Dow and Braskem Are Working Toward a Greener Future
Plastics producers have meaningful sustainability goals. Here’s how they’re pushing the needle forward – and using transportation to make a difference.
Innovation 03312021
Wide Load: Clearance Team's Efforts Result in Safe Shipments
Every day Union Pacific transports high, wide and heavy loads for its customers. But do you know what goes into making those shipments happen?
Innovation 02122021
New UP-Developed Technology Builds Better, Safer Trains
Precision Train Builder simulates trains and their operations over hundreds of miles of track compressed into minutes, accurately identifying not only where to place rail cars within a train, but how much “power” — i.e., locomotives — to use, and where to place that power within the train for the most efficient and safe operation.
- Long Game Win Makes UP Big in South Korea 02102021
- Look Out Donner Pass: The Avalauncher Is Here 02022021
- Teamwork Pulls Off Epic Union Pacific Englewood Yard Project 01062021
- West Coast Ports: We’re Open and Ready for the Rebound 05052020
- Steel Wheels Keep on Turning, Thanks to Union Pacific Innovation 03162020
- Empowering Railroad Customers One API at a Time 01272020
- New High-Tech Equipment Speeds Used Railroad Tie Cleanup Process 01082020
- Union Pacific Brings 21st Century Technologies to Life with Positive Train Control Implementation 12162019
- Loup Logistics Looking to Extend Railroad’s Reach 12042019
- How Union Pacific's Actions Helped Customers and Communities Recover from the 2019 Flood 05282019
- New California Locomotives Designed to Reduce Emissions 11162018
- It’s All About Drag: Revolutionizing Railroad Fuel Conservation 08072018