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INFO Magazine Union Pacific Railroad 1990 February Employee Taming the Tamarisks
INFO Magazine Union Pacific Railroad 1990 February Employee
INFO is published monthly for the UP family. Cover: Roadway Machinist Tom Young inspects his tree-trimming invention featured on page 14 of this issue. Photo by John Prescott.
Contents
6 Strong Advocate
An exclusive one-on-one interview with Gilbert Carmichael, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration.
10 1990 Capital Budget
Union Pacific is spending $598 million to maintain and upgrade railroad facilities and service.
12 The New Fleet's in Home Port The first of 50 new GE DASH 8 locomotives arrive in Omaha before going into regular service.
14 Taming the Tamarisks
An inventive roadway machinist has built a new machine to trim the trees protecting UP's main line from drifting sand in the Mojave Desert.
17 Managing Just Fine, Thanks Tempered by experience and personal tragedy, UP's manager of train operations in Marysville, Kansas, does business with a style that wins friends and respect at the same time.
20 Rail People
Short stories about UP people.
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