With completion of steam giant No. 4014's massive front engine restoration looming, the UP Steam Team has rebuilt and installed a cushion to cradle all that heavy metal: a brand new coil and leaf-spring suspension system.
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http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/golden-spikes-joslyn-10-5-2018.htmAn unnerving feeling of anticipation washes over Brent Nay as the 200-ton locomotive he's riding in approaches a railroad crossing in Las Vegas, Nevada. The red lights begin to flash; the red-and-white arms fall. Would traffic stop?
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http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/safety-signage-9-26-2018.htmThe goal: Take the data collected across more than 32,000 miles of track, plug it into a computer, and accurately predict which track section will break next. They call it predictive analytics, and it's the science of harvesting vast amounts of data about the past and using it to predict the future.
http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/predictive-analytics-09-18-2018.htmAs a former student of Little Rock Central High School, Union Pacific Locomotive Engineer Harlee Watson is acutely aware of the struggles African-Americans experienced during the Civil Rights Movement.
http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/open-outdoors-09-12-2018.htmAnthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, Robin Williams – the deaths of such notable figures put suicide in recent news across the globe. But suicide is more than a headline; it's a tragedy that hits close to home.
http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/suicide-prevention-09-07-2018.htmUnion Pacific's Steam Team has a new boring process that is anything but boring. Used to restore steam locomotive No. 4014's main cylinders, Ed Dickens compares the 1930s-era “boring bar" to a spider.
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