Just days before the recent explosion at the what is considered the largest rail yard in the world, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sent a letter to yard owner Union Pacific Railroad Company citing what it called “serious safety concerns” with the railroad giant’s fleet of freight cars, operational standards, and lack of response to known maintenance needs.
In a Sept. 8 letter to Union Pacific, the agency refers to the condition of the company’s stock of freight cars at its North Platte, Nebraska, rail yard as “poor” and found that the rail company was “unwilling or unable to take steps to improve the condition of their equipment.”
It accused Union Pacific’s (UP’s) locomotive director of “blatantly” disregarding the agency’s identified safety violations and concluded that the rail […]
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