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On May 27, 2021, at approximately 3:51 p.m., CDT, BNSF Railway (BNSF) unit sand train UCPFHGP0-05T (Train 1) with 3 locomotives (1 head end and 2 remote rear end), handling 130 loads, 0 empties, at 5,459 feet with 18,493 trailing tons was moving westbound[1] on the BNSF Chicago Division’s...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Grant Program (Partnership Program). The NOFO includes $198 million in grant funding to...
On May 24, 2021, at approximately 2:56 a.m., MDT, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) intermodal train ZMQLC-23 (Train 1) handling 166 loads, 0 empties, at 9,895 feet and 6,766 trailing tons, derailed 38 intermodal cars while moving west (timetable direction) along the Lordsburg Subdivision at an...
On June 6, 2021, at approximately 10:45 a.m. CDT, Union Pacific Railroad (UP) grain train GSJO3D- 04 (Train 1), handling 107 loads, 0 empties at 6,494 feet and 15,278 tons, was traveling southbound on UP’s Austin Subdivision when 39 cars derailed at milepost (MP) 215.58 in San Marcos,...
On December 25, 2020, at approximately 6:37 a.m. CST, Union Pacific Railroad Company’s (UP) southbound mixed freight train MSSDM-24 with 3 conventionally configured locomotives handling 100 loads, 8 empties, at 7,408 feet in length and 13,050 tons derailed 24 cars (18 loads/ 6 empties) at...