Part tie pickup, part brush cutter, part ditch cleaner, the new Maintenance of Way machine might just be the most versatile piece of equipment in Union Pacific’s arsenal. Now on its sixth iteration, this piece of SMRT equipment and its crew no longer just pick up ties; they can clear vegetation and spray for weeds along railroad right of way, collect scrap metal, and load cars with ballast, the rock used to stabilize tracks. Read more about this --> https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_tr

Each day, thousands of Union Pacific Maintenance of Way craft professionals are in the field, maintaining, inspecting and strengthening the railroad’s 32,000-mile rail network through track, signal and bridge replacement projects. In fact, more than half of Union Pacific’s $3.7 billion capital improvement budget in 2023 was earmarked for infrastructure replacement and maintenance, including the annual replacement of more than 3 million railroad ties and over 400 miles of rail. The crew in this v