Each day, thousands of Union Pacific Maintenance of Way craft professionals are in the field, maintaining, inspecting and strengthening the railroad’s 32,000-mile rail network through track, signal and bridge replacement projects.
In fact, more than half of Union Pacific’s $3.7 billion capital improvement budget in 2023 was earmarked for infrastructure replacement and maintenance, including the annual replacement of more than 3 million railroad ties and over 400 miles of rail.
Union Pacific is proud of the work these men and women in our Engineering Department do each day, making us a safer and more efficient railroad.
Union Pacific Invests in Maintenance, Crews to Strengthen Rail Infrastructure
The crew in the video above is picking up used rail ties left by another crew that replaced the ties in Dallas, Texas, in mid-November.
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This self-contained crew operates two excavators on work equipment that includes a tool car outfitted with a bathroom and a place to cook and eat meals. There’s even a rail car that hauls a pick-up truck for the crew to use. The self-sufficient crew can pick up around 1,000 used rail ties an hour.
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