UP Announces Shift to Precision Railroading, but Scant Details Lend Little Incremental Optimism
On an analyst call, Union Pacific has announced plans to adopt precision scheduled railroading, but few details and improvement targets unchanged from the investor meeting four months ago temper our expectations for its successful near-term radical adoption of precision scheduled railroading principles. Accordingly, we retain our projected operating ratio improvement over the next five years. We already model improvement from a 61.8% OR in 2017 to 58% in 2022, based on our assumption of more eff...Union Pacific, through its operating subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, is a Class I railroad operating in the United States. The company's network included route miles, linking Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast ports with the Midwest and eastern United States. gateways and providing several corridors to key Mexican gateways. The company serves the western two-thirds of the country and maintains coordinated schedules with other rail carriers for the handling of freight to and from the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast, the Southeast, the Southwest, Canada, and Mexico. The company's business mix includes agricultural products, energy, industrial, and premium.
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