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Win-Win Award
Argus Media Recognizes UP for Handling PRB Coal Demand
August 19, 2008 | 12:30 p.m. CDT
Union Pacific recently received Argus Media's prestigious Win-Win Award. Given annually to railroads, shippers and organizations, the honor recognizes innovative partnerships leading to improved service, efficiency and other mutually beneficial service improvements.
The world's largest independent energy news and price reporting agency, Argus Media precisely assesses prices in the oil, electricity, natural gas, coal, emissions and transportation markets.
"It is truly gratifying to see how successful we can be when we communicate and work together more effectively. This is a great model for one of the ways to overcome the nation's capacity issues and meet future growth."
– Doug Glass, vice president-Energy, Marketing and Sales
BNSF and the National Coal Transportation Association (NCTA) also received this year's award, which acknowledges partnerships between rail carriers and customers resulting in significant cost or service benefits. It recognizes how the railroads and the association developed an accurate coal-train loading forecast method, significantly improving train scheduling and resource planning in Wyoming's Powder River Basin (PRB), while preserving competition in the marketplace.
"It is truly gratifying to see how successful we can be when we communicate and work together more effectively," said Doug Glass, vice president-Energy, Marketing and Sales. "This is a great model for one of the ways to overcome the nation's capacity issues and meet future growth."
"It all revolves around communications," said Tom Canter, executive director-NCTA. "I think we finally realized if one mine is struggling, everybody is struggling; if one railroad is struggling, everybody is struggling. We're all in this together, and this forecasting process has become a way to communicate."
Accidents Down, Fatalities Up in Nine Months
Dec. 2, 2008 | 12:40 p.m. CST
With 716 large and small U.S. railroads reporting, total accidents and incidents in this year's first nine months were down 10.3 percent to 9,232 compared with the corresponding period last year. More...
U.S. Rail Freight Volume Up From Year Ago
Dec. 1, 2008 | 11:25 a.m. CST
Carload freight for the 47th week of 2008 totaled 309,109 cars, up 6.6 percent from last year, with volume up 10.2 percent in the East and 4.4 percent in the West. More...
Disney World Displays UP Train Sets
Nov. 25, 2008 | 10:05 a.m. CST
Disney World's Epcot is running Union Pacific train sets throughout the holiday season at its American Pavilion. More...
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