The
Union Pacific Railroad ( ), headquartered in
Omaha,
Nebraska
, is the
largest and oldest operating railroad
network in the United
States
. James R.
Young is president, CEO and
Chairman.
UP's route
map covers most of the central and western United States west of
Chicago
and New
Orleans
. As of 2005, UP operates on of track, of
which it owns outright , both numbers representing the highest
amount of any railroad currently operating in the United States. It
has achieved this size as a result of purchasing a large number of
other railroads, notably the
Missouri
Pacific,
Chicago
and North Western,
Western
Pacific,
Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the
Rio Grande
(including the
Southern
Pacific). Currently, Union Pacific owns 26% of
Ferromex while
Grupo
Mexico owns the remaining 74%.
UP's chief railroad competitor is the
BNSF
Railway, which covers much of the same territory.
History
The Union Pacific Railroad was incorporated on July 1, 1862 in the
wake of the
Pacific Railroad Act of
1862.
Under the guidance of its dominant
stockholder Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, the namesake of the city of
Durant, Iowa, the first rails were laid in Omaha, Nebraska
. The Union Pacific Railroad was joined
together with the Central
Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah
, in 1869 hence creating the first
transcontinental railroad in North America. Subsequently, UP took
over three Mormon-built roads: the Utah Central Rail Road
extending south from Ogden,
Utah
, to Salt Lake City
, the Utah Southern
Railroad extending south from Salt Lake City into the Utah Valley
, and the Utah
Northern Railroad extending north from Ogden into Idaho
; and it
built or absorbed local lines that gave it access to Denver
and to
Portland,
Oregon
, and the Pacific
Northwest. It acquired the
Kansas Pacific (originally called
the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, though in essence a separate
railroad).
It also owned narrow gauge trackage into the
heart of the Colorado Rockies and a standard gauge line south from
Denver across New
Mexico
into Texas
(both parts
of the Union
Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway).
UP was entangled in the
Crédit Mobilier
scandal of 1872. Its early troubles led to
bankruptcy during the 1870s, the result of which
was reorganization of the Union Pacific Railroad as the Union
Pacific Railway on January 24, 1880, with its dominant stockholder
being
Jay Gould. The new company also
declared bankruptcy, in 1893, but emerged on July 1, 1897,
reverting to the original name, Union Pacific Railroad. Such minor
changes in corporate titles were a common result of reorganization
after bankruptcy among American railroads. This period saw the UP
sell off some of its holdings; the Union Pacific Railway, Central
Branch became the Central Branch of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad and the
Southern Branch was acquired by the newly-incorporated
Missouri Kansas Texas
Railroad in 1870.
However, the UP soon recovered, and was
strong enough to take control of Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in
1901 and then was ordered in 1913 by the U.S.
Supreme Court
to surrender control of the same.
UP also
founded the Sun
Valley
resort in Idaho
in 1936, the
UP engineering department in Omaha designed the first ski chairlift that summer. The MP and MKT both
came back into the UP fold in the 1980s. In 1996, UP finally
acquired SP in a transaction envisioned nearly a century
earlier.
The
headquarters of UP has been in Omaha
, Nebraska
, since its inception. Currently they are
housed in the Union Pacific Center
, completed in 2003. Other important UP
facilities in Omaha have included the
Union Pacific
Railroad Omaha Shops Facility and the
Harriman Dispatch Center.
UP:Chronological History
Union Pacific Corporation
In 1986 UP purchased
Overnite
Transportation, a fairly major less-than-truckload shipping
carrier. UP divested itself of Overnite Trucking through an
IPO in 2004.
In the
late 1980s and early 1990s, UP purchased several non-railroad
companies, such as Skyway Freight
Systems of Watsonville, California
, and United States Pollution
Control, Inc., but by 2000, following the appointment of
Richard K. Davidson as CEO, it had divested itself
of all non-railroad properties except for Overnite Trucking, and
its holding company for logistical technology,
Fenix Enterprises.
The Union
Pacific Corporation (not the railroad itself) was located in
Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania
until 1997, when Richard K. Davidson announced
that it was moving to Dallas
in September
of that year. Two years later, on the sale of Skyway and the
impending divestiture of Overnite, the UP corporate headquarters
moved to Omaha to join the headquarters of the railroad.
Current trackage
Primarily
concentrated west of the Mississippi
River, UP directly owns and operates track in 23 U.S. states:
Arizona
, Arkansas
, California
, Colorado
, Idaho
, Illinois
, Iowa
, Kansas
, Louisiana
, Minnesota
, Missouri
, Montana
, Nebraska
, Nevada
, New Mexico
, Oklahoma
, Oregon
, Tennessee
, Texas
, Utah
, Washington
, Wisconsin
, and Wyoming
. For administrative purposes, its network is
divided into 21 “service units”: Chicago, Council Bluffs, Commuter
Operations, Denver, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City,
Livonia, Los Angeles, North Little Rock, North Platte, Portland,
Roseville, San Antonio, Saint Louis, Tucson, Twin Cities, Utah, and
Wichita (incomplete list). Each “service unit” is further divided
into many different subdivisions, which represent segments of track
ranging from mainlines to branch-lines.
Not including second, third, and fourth main line track, yard
track, and siding track, UP directly operated some 36,206 miles
(58,364 kilometers) of track, as of March 24, 2000. When the
additional tracks are counted, the amount of track that it has
direct control over rises to 54,116 miles (87,091
kilometers).
UP has also been able to reach agreements with competing railroads,
mostly
BNSF, that allow the railroad to
operate its own trains with its own crews on hundreds of miles of
competing railroads’ main tracks.
Furthermore, due to the practice of
locomotive leasing and sharing undertaken by the Class I railroads, UP locomotives
occasionally show up on competitors' tracks throughout the United States
, Canada
and most
recently, Mexico
.
In California, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
maintains a database of crossings which can be found here:
http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/transportation/crossings/crossingsdb.htm
Real estate holdings
Union Pacific Railroad is the largest landholder west of the
Mississippi River and is second only to the United States
government in overall landholdings within the United States.
Yards and facilities

Ogden, Utah yard
Because of the large size of UP, hundreds of yards throughout its
rail network are needed to effectively handle the daily transport
of goods from one place to another. To reduce overall emissions,
Union Pacific is acquiring a new generation of environmentally
friendly locomotives for use in Los Angeles basin rail yards.
Some of the more prominent rail facilities in UP’s system include:
- The
Intermodal Container Transfer Facility in Wilmington,
California
, serving the ports of Los
Angeles
and Long Beach
.
- Bailey Yard
, the largest railroad classification yard in the world, located in
North
Platte, Nebraska
.
- The
Hinkle
Locomotive Service and Repair Facility in Hermiston,
Oregon
.
- J.R. Davis Yard, the largest rail facility on the
United States’ west coast, in Roseville, California
.
- Jenks
Shop, one of the largest locomotive overhaul and maintenance
facilities in the world, located in North Little
Rock, Arkansas
.
- Global III Intermodal Facility, a critical
interchange hub and loading/unloading terminal for intermodal shipments moving
through the Chicago
metropolitan area, in Rochelle, Illinois
.
- Mira
Loma Terminal in Mira Loma, California
, the principal distribution center for Chrysler and
Ford in Southern California
- Union
Pacific Dallas Intermodal Terminal, a massive $80 million expansion
of the railroad's transportation hub outside of Dallas, Texas
.
- Union
Pacific San Antonio Intermodal Terminal is a $90 million
state-of-the-art intermodal terminal under construction in San Antonio,
Texas
and is expected to be complete in 2008.
Active hump yards
Hump yards work by using a small
hill over which cars are pushed, before being released down a slope
and switched automatically into cuts of cars, ready to be made into
outbound trains. UP's active humps include:
- Northlake, Illinois
- Proviso Yard
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Davidson Yard
- Hermiston, Oregon
- Hinkle Yard
- Houston, Texas
- Englewood Yard
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Neff Yard
- Livonia, Louisiana

- Pine Bluff, Arkansas

- North Little Rock, Arkansas
-North Little Rock Yard
- North Platte, Nebraska
- Bailey
Yard
- Roseville, California
- Davis Yard
- Colton, California
-West Colton Yard
- Beaumont, Texas
-Beaumont Yard
Union Pacific Police Department
Union Pacific maintains a functioning police department staffed
with
Special Agents with jurisdiction over crimes against
the railroad. Special Agents have federal and state arrest powers
and can enforce laws even off railroad property in most states
where the railroad operates. Special Agents typically investigate
major incidents such as derailments, sabotage, grade crossing
accidents, and hazardous material accidents and minor issues such
as trespassing on the railroad right of way, vandalism/graffiti,
and theft of company property or customer product.
Special Agents often coordinate with local, state, and federal law
enforcement on issues concerning the railroad and are dispatched
nationally through UP Headquarters in Omaha.
The UP Police
Department and the term "Special Agent" were models for the
FBI
when it was created in 1907.
Union Pacific Railroad Museum

The Union Pacific Railroad
Museum
The Union
Pacific Railroad Museum in Council Bluffs
, Iowa, houses one of the oldest corporate
collections in the nation. It includes artifacts,
photographs, and documents that trace the development of the
railroad and the American West.
The completion of Union Pacific’s transcontinental railroad in 1869
helped shape the landscape and geography and brought tens of
thousands of westward-bound immigrants to the American West.
The museum’s collection features weapons from the late 19th and
20th centuries, outlaw paraphernalia, a sampling of the immigrants’
possessions, and a photograph collection comprising more than
500,000 images.
In 2009, the America’s Power Factuality Tour stopped at the Union
Pacific Railroad Museum to report on the railroad’s role in
generating electricity in the United States.
Locomotive and rolling stock
Paint and colors
UP's basic paint scheme for its
diesel-electric locomotives is the oldest still in use by a major
railroad. The bottom two-thirds of the locomotive body is painted
Armour Yellow, so-named because it was the color used by
the
Armour meat company. A thin
band of red divides this from the
Harbor Mist Gray (a
fairly light gray) used for the body and roof above that point. A
red line is also painted at the bottom of the locomotive body, but
this color has gradually become yellow as new Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) regulations for reflectorized tape came into
effect in 2005; the trucks, underframe, fuel tanks and everything
else beneath that line are also
Harbor Mist Gray.
Lettering and numbering are in red, with black outlines. Some
locomotives (historically passenger locomotives, and some recent
units from 2000 on) have white-outlined blue "wings" on the nose.
More recently, some units have been repainted with a large,
billowing
Stars and
Stripes with the corporate motto "Building America" on the
side, where the 'UNION PACIFIC' lettering is normally positioned.
This scheme is also know as Wings,Flags and Flares.
The first version of this scheme was used on the UP's streamlined
trains in the 1940s, although a brown was used instead of grey.
Passenger car,
cabooses, and other non-freight equipment have also
been painted in a similar fashion.
The
steam locomotive paint schemes
are unique in their own way. Up until the mid-1940s, all steam
locomotives on UP were painted in a standard scheme: the smokebox
and firebox were painted graphite and the rest was painted jet
black; the lettering was usually aluminum. In the late 1940s, many
passenger steam locomotives were repainted in a two-tone grey
scheme to match the scheme applied to some coaching stock. These
locomotives were painted light grey, with one dark gray strip
running from front to rear alongside the running board and in the
middle of the tender. This dark grey strip was outlined in yellow
(originally aluminum), and all lettering inside the strip was
yellow also. After 1952, these locomotives were repainted in the
same basic black color scheme as the earlier freight locomotives.
The grey passenger cars were repainted in the yellow scheme.

UP Locomotive hauling a CN train
Edmonton, Canada
In the second half of 2005, UP unveiled a new set of
EMD SD70ACe locomotives in "Heritage Colors,"
painted in schemes reminiscent of railroads acquired by UP since
the 1980s. The engine numbers match the year that the predecessor
railroad was absorbed into Union Pacific. The three locomotives
already repainted commemorate the
Missouri Pacific (
UP 1982),
Western Pacific (
UP 1983), and
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
(
UP 1988) railroads. Three
engines were also painted in the colors of other UP predecessors:
Chicago and North
Western (bought by UP in 1995) and
Southern Pacific (
UP 1996),
Denver and Rio Grande
Western (which had purchased the SP in 1988 but kept the larger
system's name). The D&RG Unit was unveiled in Denver in June,
the C&NW was unveiled in Chicago in July and the SP unit was
unveiled in Roseville, California, in August 2006.
UP recently unveiled another specially painted SD70ACe:
4141 has "
George Bush 41" on the sides and its paint
scheme resembles that of
Air Force
One.
Model railroad enthusiasts were upset by UP's insistence on
collecting royalties for the use of all railroad logos owned by the
UP for use on model railroading equipment. In July 2006 UP
announced that it would use the income from the licensing program
to enhance the Heritage Programs of the company. In November 2006,
however, the railroad reached an agreement with model railroad
manufacturer M.T.H. Electric Trains whom it sued in 2005, which
resulted in the railroad discontinuing the collection of royalties
from all model railroad manufacturers.
2008 locomotive roster
As of January 1, 2008, UP has 8,595 locomotives on its active
roster.
Surviving merger partner locomotives

A former Southern Pacific GP38-2
locomotive renumbered with UP "patch" markings.
As of August 27, 2006, UP operates:50 Southern Pacific,36 St. Louis
Southwestern (Cotton Belt),2 Chicago and North Western, and1 Denver
and Rio Grande Western locomotive.These locomotives are still in
the former railroads' paint. In addition, many locomotives have
been "patch" renumbered by UP, varying in the degree of the
previous railroads' logos being eradicated, but always with a
yellow patch applied over the locomotive's former number and a new
UP number applied on the cab. This allows UP to number locomotives
into its roster, yet it takes less time and money than it does to
perform a complete repaint into UP colors. As of July 31, 2005, UP
rostered 492 "patches", consisting of:37 Chicago and North Western
(whose CNW logos have been hidden by the "patches"),445 Southern
Pacific,47 St. Louis Southwestern,23 Denver and Rio Grande
Western.
Historic locomotives

#68, one of the Union Pacific's
turbine locomotives.
Alone among modern railroads, UP maintains a small fleet of
historic locomotives for special trains and hire in its Cheyenne,
Wyoming roundhouse. The roundhouse is just south of the historic
depot.
- UP 844 is a
4-8-4 Northern type express passenger
steam locomotive (class FEF-3). It
was the last steam locomotive built for UP and has been in
continuous service since its 1944 delivery. Many people know the
engine as the No. 8444, since an extra '4' was added to its number
in 1962 to distinguish it from a diesel numbered in the 800 series.
It regained its rightful number in June 1989, after the diesel was
retired. A mechanical failure occurred on June 24, 1999, in which
the boiler tubes from the 1996 overhaul, being made of the wrong
material, collapsed inside the boiler and put the steam locomotive
out of commission. The UP steam crew successfully repaired it and
returned it to service on November 10, 2004. It is the only steam
locomotive to never be officially retired from a North American
Class I railroad.
- UP 3985 is a
4-6-6-4 Challenger class
dual-service steam locomotive. It is the largest steam locomotive
still in operation anywhere in the world. Withdrawn from
service in 1962, it was stored in the UP roundhouse until 1975, when it was moved to the
employees' parking lot outside the Cheyenne, Wyoming
, depot until 1981 when
a team of employee volunteers restored it to service. In
2007, it underwent repairs for service, and was back up and running
in 2008 to continue its run.
- UP 951, 949 and 963B are a trio of streamlined
General Motors Electro-Motive
Division E9 passenger locomotives built
in 1955. They are used to haul the UP business cars and for charter
specials. While externally they are 1955 vintage locomotives, the
original twin 1200 hp 12-cylinder 567 series engines have been
replaced with single EMD 16-645E 2000 hp (1.5 MW) engines and the
electrical and control equipment similarly upgraded, making them
more modern locomotives under the skin. Some refer to the units as
"E38-2" units, as the internal equipment was taken from wrecked
GP38-2 locomotives. The set is made of two
A units and one B unit.
The B unit contains an HEP
engine-generator set for powering passenger cars. The two A units
were recently modified to eliminate the nose doors to increase
safety in the event of collision.
- UP 6936 is
an EMD DDA40X "Centennial" diesel-electric
locomotive. These were the largest diesel locomotives ever built
and were manufactured specifically for UP.
- UP 5511 is a 2-10-2
steam locomotive. This locomotive is very rarely ever heard of, due
to the fact that it was never donated for public display. This
locomotive is reportedly in excellent condition, and a restoration
probably would not take more than a couple of weeks. The only thing
keeping it from being restored is that it would be limited to or
lower due to its large cylinders and small drivers. As of August
2004, this locomotive is being offered for sale by UP.
In addition there are a number of other locomotives kept in storage
for possible future restoration. Rio Grande (DRGW) F9B 5763 is one
of the units in storage, part of the Trio (A-B-B) of
F9s that served on the Rio Grande in various
Passenger Duty services (From the Denver Ski Train to the Zephyr
Trains) until their retirement in 1996. Sister Units 5771 (F9A) and
5762 (F9B) were donated to the Colorado Railroad Museum. Chicago
& Northwestern
F7 #401, used in Chicago
Commuter Service, also was retained by UP.
UP 838, a twin to 844, is stored in the Cheyenne roundhouse as a
parts source, though as most of its
usable parts have already been applied to 844, it is more likely to
see use as a source of
pattern parts for
reproduction replacements. Reputedly, 838's
boiler is in better condition than that of 844, due
to 838 having not been in steam since retirement, compared to 844's
relatively heavy use since 1960.
Among the
former tenants was Southern
Pacific 1518 (the First Production SD7 (ex EMD demo 990), transferred to the
Illinois
Railway Museum
after sometime in storage in the UP
shops.
Preserved locomotives

Union Pacific 618 operates at the
Heber Valley Historic Railroad
In addition to the historic fleet outlined above kept by UP itself,
a large number of UP locomotives survive elsewhere. Many
locomotives were donated to towns along the Union Pacific tracks,
for instance, as well as locomotives donated to museums.
- UP 18, 26. From 1948 to the early 1970s, UP operated a series
of Gas turbine-electric
locomotives. No other railroad in the world operated turbines
on such a scale. At one point, UP claimed that the turbines hauled
10% of its freight. These were ultimately retired due to rising
fuel costs. Union Pacific GTELs
can be seen on display at the Illinois Railway Museum and the Utah
State Railroad Museum.
- UP 618, a 2-8-0 at the Heber Valley Historic
Railroad
.
- UP
737 - A 4-4-0 was in the
collection of Steamtown National Historic
Site
but has since been transferred to a
museum.
- UP 3977 is
the only 4-6-6-4 Challenger class
dual-service steam locomotive on static display. It is located in Cody
Park in North
Platte, Nebraska
.
- UP 4004, 4005, 4006, 4012, 4014, 4017, 4018,
4023 - Union Pacific Big
Boy 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives.
Eight out of 25 survive. Number 4018, currently residing at the
Museum of
the American Railroad
in Dallas,
TX
, almost saw a return to operation in 1998 when a
film director proposed restoring the locomotive for use in a
movie. However, it has been 9 years since anything has been
heard of this proposal, and it is considered to have been only a
whim. The 4000's developed over 6290 horsepower at 42 mph and over
135,000 lbs tractive effort when starting. It accomplished this
feat of shear power whilst not only being fast but also by being
extremely reliable, breakdowns were seldom heard of.
- UP
4466 - An 0-6-0 type built by
Lima Locomotive Works in 1920, displayed at the California
State Railroad Museum
. It operated at the museum until 1999.
- UP 6900 Centennial series - Several
of the huge DDA40X diesel-electric
locomotives have been saved. Other than 6936 that UP maintains in
its heritage fleet, none of the remaining Centennials operate.
However,
6930 at the Illinois Railway Museum
has operating cab controls, allowing it to
couple to another locomotive and control it.
- UP 9000, a Union Pacific 9000 class 4-12-2 giant non-articulated freight locomotive, at
the Fairplex
in Pomona, California
.
Passenger train service
Union Pacific operated through passenger service over its historic
"Overland Route" between 1869 until May 1, 1971. The last passenger
train operated by UP was the westbound
City of Los
Angeles.
After May 1, 1971 Amtrak assumed operation of long-distance passenger
operations in the United
States
. UP at various times operated the following
named passenger trains:
- Butte Special (operated between Salt Lake City and
Butte, Montana)
- Challenger
(operated jointly with the Chicago and North Western
Railway until October 1955, and thereafter the Milwaukee Road)
- City of Denver (operated
jointly with the Chicago and North Western Railway until October
1955, and thereafter the Milwaukee Road)
- City of Las Vegas;
later, the Las Vegas Holiday Special (1956–1967)
- City of Los Angeles
(operated jointly with the Chicago and North Western Railway until
October 1955, and thereafter the Milwaukee Road)
- City of Portland
(operated jointly with the Chicago and North Western Railway until
October 1955, and thereafter the Milwaukee Road)
- City of Salina
(1934–1940)
- City of San
Francisco (operated jointly with the Chicago and North
Western Railway and the Southern Pacific Railroad; after
October, 1955 the Milwaukee Road assumed operation of the
Chicago-Omaha leg of the service)
- City of St.
Louis
- Columbine
(in service to Chicago and Denver, beginning in the 1920s)
- Forty-Niner (operated between Chicago and
Oakland)
- Gold Coast (operated between Chicago and Oakland/Los
Angeles)
- Idahoan (operated between Cheyenne and Portland)
- Los Angeles Limited
(in service 1905)
- Overland Flyer; renamed
the Overland Limited in 1890 (1887–1963)
- Pony Express (operated between Kansas City and Los
Angeles)
- Portland Rose (in service
between Chicago and Portland, beginning in the 1920s)
- San Francisco Overland (originally operated between
Chicago and Oakland, later terminated only at St. Louis)
- Spokane (operated between Spokane and Portland)
- Utahn (operated between Cheyenne and Los Angeles)
- Yellowstone Special (operated between Poncatello,
Idaho and West Yellowstone, Montana)
Currently, UP operates passenger service for
Metra:
Today Amtrak operates no Long Distance trains that were originally
operated by Union Pacific, they do operate trains once run by
companies now owned by Union Pacific including the
Sunset Limited,
Texas
Eagle, and
California Zephyr.
Union Pacific's trains had a large rear window for better outlook
from the rear of the train, to encourage passenger service .
Diversity
UP was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in
2004 by Working Mothers magazine. It was named "Most Military
Friendly Employer in America" for 2005. For the third consecutive
year, UP has been selected by
Latina Style as one of the LATINA
Style 50 best companies for
Latina (female
Hispanic) employees in the United States.
UP also scored 79 in Human Rights Campaigns Corporate Equality
Index rating companies on their protection and benefits for the
GLBT community, offering protection in their EEO statements and
benefits for domestic partners.
Facts and figures
According to UP’s 2007 Annual Report to Investors, at the end of
2007 it had more than 50,000 employees, 8,721 locomotives, and
94,284 freight cars.
Broken down by specific type of car, owned and leased:
In addition, it owns 6,950 different pieces of
maintenance of way work equipment.
At the end of 2007 the average age of UP’s locomotive fleet was
14.8 years, the freight car fleet 28 years.
Company officers
Presidents of the Union Pacific Railroad:
Chief Executive Officers, Presidents, and Chairmen of the Union
Pacific Corporation (parent corporation of the railroad)
- John Kenefick (several months in 1986)
- Drew Lewis (1986–1997)
- Richard K. Davidson (1997– January 2006)
- James R. Young (January 2006)
Environmental record
Citing its development of a "green" locomotive fleet and energy
conservation measures, the UP states it is "...committed to
protecting the environment now and for future generations. Our
employees, customers, shareholders and the communities we serve can
expect our full compliance with all laws and regulations ... We
will continue our leadership in caring for the environment while
delivering the goods that America needs." In Eugene, Oregon, the UP
and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality are jointly
studying ground contamination at the railroad's yard originating
from over one hundred years ago, consisting mostly of
petroleum hydrocarbons,
industrial solvents, and metals. This has affected a nearby
groundwater source.
Union Pacific Railroad has recently started an experimental method
of reducing emissions from the engine exhaust of their locomotives.
By adding an experimental oxidation catalyst filtering canister to
the diesel engine's exhaust manifold, they are attempting to reduce
the amount of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and
particulate matter generated, much like a catalytic converter in
automobiles and trucks. The
United States
Environmental Protection Agency’s National Vehicle Fuels and
Emissions Laboratory provided most of the funding for the test.
Using Ultra Low Sulfur diesel with the oxicat resulted in reduced
particulate emissions by approximately 50 percent, unburned
hydrocarbons by 38 percent and carbon monoxide by
82 percent.
See also
References
Notes
- http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/uprr-chr.shtml
- UP: Union Pacific Begins Construction of $90
Million State-of-the-Art Intermodal Terminal in Southwest Bexar
County
- http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/reference/locorost.shtml
- http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/attachments/locorost.pdf
- See Union Pacific Environmental Management (online). Accessed
2009-09-15
Books
- Kelly, John (2009) Union Pacific Railroad - Photo Archive:
Passenger Trains of the City Fleet Iconografix ISBN
978-1583882368
External links