The sight of freight trains rumbling down the tracks is about as common in Nebraska and Iowa as corn and silos.But transportation officials are urging drivers to be careful at railroad crossings as ...

On Jan. 1 all major railroads across the United States are required by federal law to have their locomotives and central offices equipped, and employees trained, for using Positive Train Control, a ...

Nebraska has more than 11,000 freight railroad employees, mostly working for the Union Pacific and BNSF, but not all of them are represented by unions. More than 30 million tons of goods are shipped ...

The next time you sit on a ski lift on the way to the top of a mountain, think of bananas and the Union Pacific Railroad. Credit them with the modern-day chairlift system used by ski resorts around ...