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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."
FRA: Freight Rail Fuel Efficiency Up
Nov. 20, 2009 | 03:05 p.m. CST
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Nov. 19 released a study showing vast improvements in freight rail fuel efficiency over the last two decades, approximately 22 percent between 1990 and 2006. More...
Freight Volume Down During Holiday Week
Nov. 20, 2009 | 02:55 p.m. CST
U.S. railroads reported originating 281,218 carloads for the Veterans Day holiday week ended Nov. 14, down 8.9 percent compared to the same week in 2008 and down 17 percent from from the same week in 2007, reports the Association of American Railroads. More...
New Jersey Transit Joins Safety Pilot Program
Nov. 20, 2009 | 02:40 p.m. CST
New Jersey Transit has started its participation in the Close Call Project, a safety pilot program designed to give rail employees the ability to voluntarily and anonymously report "close call" incidents that could have resulted in an accident but did not. More...
STB: Rails Cut More Jobs
Nov. 18, 2009 | 02:00 p.m. CST
The U.S. lines of the seven Class I railroads trimmed another 408 jobs as of mid-October from a month earlier, taking their total employment level down to a new low. More...
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