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Discussion about the Union Pacific operations past and present. Official site can be found here: UPRR.COM.

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 #646910  by rhallanger
 
Purely anecdotal, but it seems to me the manifest trains I see in the Fresno area are MUCH shorter. Just about every manifest I see looks like about 60 cars with two locomotives on the head end and sometimes one on the rear of the train. I was used to seeing 100 car trains.

Are the trains, in fact, running smaller consist now, and if so, why?
 #656836  by slchub
 
According to the Utah Service Unit safety hot-line you'll see more traffic over the next two weeks on the Overland route as MoW work will shut down the Sunset corridor.