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UP estimated damages to signals, equipment, and track to be about $4 million; Boss Heavy Haul LLC estimated damages to the ...

Union Pacific Railroad has unveiled the first of 60 new environmentally friendly, ultra-low emission diesel locomotives for use in the Los Angeles region. Just days after we wrote about the ...

A Union Pacific Z-train was moving at 64 mph when it collided with a 45.5-ton piece of heavy equipment on a grade crossing in ...

The van was severely damaged, while the front of the locomotive was also damaged. No damage to the tracks was reported, but a railroad crossing sign was also damaged.

A freight train derailed after striking a semi-trailer that was blocking a crossing in Pecos City ... but apart from some diesel fuel from the locomotive itself, there was no spillage and the ...

As a result of the collision, the 4 head-end locomotives and the first 11 railcars derailed, and the derailed locomotives released about 9,000 gallons of locomotive diesel fuel into the ground.