{"id":2027553,"date":"2023-09-10T20:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-railroad-inspectors-make-alarming-find\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:51:46","slug":"federal-railroad-inspectors-make-alarming-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-railroad-inspectors-make-alarming-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal railroad inspectors discover concerning findings."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-railroad-inspectors-make-alarming-find%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027553&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Federal Railroad Inspectors Make Alarming\u200c Find at Union\u2062 Pacific Railyard<\/h2>\n<p>Federal inspectors recently uncovered a concerning number of defects in the locomotives and railcars\u2064 being used at Union Pacific&#8217;s \u200cmassive railyard in western \u2062Nebraska.\u200d These \u2064findings have\u200d raised serious\u200d concerns about rail safety on the Union Pacific railroad.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Railroad Administrator Amit \u200cBose expressed his worries in a letter addressed to UP&#8217;s\u200c top executives. He emphasized that the defect rates \u2064of 19.93 \u200cpercent for rail\u2062 cars and 72.69 \u200dpercent for locomotives, discovered\u2062 during inspections in July and August, \u200care both double the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Although the letter\u200d did\u2064 not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-chair-says-it-would-be-a-mistake-for-trump-to-skip-primary-debates\/\" title=\"RNC Chair warns against Trump skipping primary debates.\">provide\u200d specific details<\/a> \u2062about the defects\u200b found at \u2064the\u200b Bailey\u200b Yard in North Platte, it highlighted the\u200c poor compliance of Union Pacific&#8217;s rolling stock and the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-train-derailment-sherrod-brown-not-entirely-satisfied-with-norfolk-southern-after-second-crash\/\" title=\"Ohio train derailment: Sherrod Brown 'not entirely satisfied' with Norfolk Southern after second crash\">railroad&#8217;<\/a>s \u200creluctance to address \u200cthe issues.<\/p>\n<p>Bose also questioned whether \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-i-learned-at-the-aspen-ideas-reet-festival-sponsored-by-mastercard-paypal-and-prudential-in-partnership-with-bloomberg\/\" title=\"What I Learned at the Aspen Ideas RE$ET Festival Sponsored by Mastercard, PayPal, and Prudential in Partnership with Bloomberg\">recent layoffs<\/a> within the company had left Union Pacific without enough personnel\u2064 to carry out necessary repairs. However, \u2063Union Pacific&#8217;s spokesperson, Kristen South, reassured the public \u2063that the layoffs\u2064 were not a factor and that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-railroad-inspectors-make-alarming-find\/\" title=\"Federal railroad inspectors discover concerning findings.\">railroad remains fully committed<\/a> to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Railroad \u2063safety has become \u2063a major concern nationwide, particularly after a train derailment and fire incident involving Norfolk Southern in eastern Ohio earlier this year. Despite calls for reforms, significant changes have been slow to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>South emphasized that Union Pacific maintains appropriate staffing levels and has sufficient capacity to handle the natural fluctuations of their business. The recent layoffs occurred after the completion\u200c of the FRA inspection and\u200b represent\u2063 only\u2063 a\u200b small \u200bfraction of the company&#8217;s workforce, which\u2063 exceeds 30,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>With Union Pacific&#8217;s new CEO, Jim Vena, taking\u2064 the helm just last month, \u2064the company\u2063 is determined\u200b to address the concerns raised by the FRA. Union \u2063Pacific operates an extensive network of 32,400 miles (52,000 kilometers) of track across \u206323 Western states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has\u200d reviewed\u200b this Associated Press story \u2062and may \u200dhave altered it\u200b prior to publication to ensure \u2064that it\u200b meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-federal-railroad-inspectors-make-alarming-find\/\">Federal Railroad Inspectors Make Alarming Find<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2064Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal inspectors discovered numerous defects in Union Pacific&#8217;s locomotives and railcars at a Nebraska railyard. However, the railroad showed reluctance in addressing these issues, as stated by Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose in a letter to UP&#8217;s top executives, expressing his concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2027554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}