— Engineers who operate trains for Union Pacific will soon have much more predictable schedules that will allow them to plan when they are going to be off, a change addressing one of the key quality-of-life concerns that pushed the rail industry to the brink of a strike last fall. “This significant change in scheduling not only will make life …
— Union Pacific’s latest attempt to move toward cutting its train crews down to one person remains on hold because of the longstanding safety concerns of the union that represents conductors. The pilot program wouldn’t have actually reduced the train crew down to one because Union Pacific would have kept conductors on their trains while adding ground-based conductors to test …
