Editing Union Pacific Railroad (section)

==Facilities==
[[File:Union Pacific Railroad Intermodal Terminal, Santa Teresa NM.jpg|thumb|The intermodal terminal just outside [[Santa Teresa, New Mexico]], used for exchanging freight with trucks from Mexico]]The Union Pacific system includes hundreds of yards. Most are [[flat yard]]s used for local switching. Other types of yards include intermodal terminals and hump yards. Most UP intermodal terminals are typically ports, but UP also has inland terminals for transfers to trucks, such as the terminal in [[San Antonio]] that opened in 2009<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arbona |first=Joe |date=August 22, 2007 |title=Union Pacific Begins Construction of $90 Million State-of-the-Art Intermodal Terminal in Southwest Bexar County |url=http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/capital_investment/2007/0822_sanantonio.shtml |access-date=April 2, 2015 |publisher=Union Pacific |location=[[San Antonio, Texas]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Espinoza |first=Raquel |date=March 11, 2009 |title=Union Pacific Railroad Opens New San Antonio Intermodal Terminal |url=https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/capital_investment/2009/0311_sanantonio_intermodal.shtml |access-date=September 7, 2015 |publisher=Union Pacific |location=[[San Antonio, Texas]]}}</ref> or the one in [[Santa Teresa, New Mexico]], that opened in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rockin' and Railroading at the Santa Teresa Intermodal Facility |url=https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/community_ties/05_22_listen_up.htm |access-date=October 6, 2021 |website=up.com |publisher=Union Pacific}}</ref>

===Hump yards===
In 2006, Union Pacific had 11 major active [[Classification yard|hump yards]]:<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 8, 2006 |title=North America's Hump Yards |url=http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=537 |journal=[[Trains (magazine)|Trains]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204022048/http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=537 |archive-date=December 4, 2008 |access-date=January 13, 2015}}</ref>

*[[Bailey Yard]] in [[North Platte, Nebraska]]
* Beaumont Yard in [[Beaumont, Texas]]
* Davidson Yard in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]
* [[Davis Yard]] in [[Roseville, California]]

* Englewood Yard in [[Houston]], Texas
* Gateway Yard in [[East St Louis, Illinois]], owned by subsidiary [[Alton and Southern Railway]]
* Livonia Yard in [[Livonia, Louisiana]]
* North Little Rock Yard in [[North Little Rock, Arkansas]]
* Proviso Yard in [[Northlake, Illinois]], owned by [[Chicago and North Western Transportation Company]] until 1995
* Strang Yard in [[La Porte, Texas]]
* West Colton Yard in [[Bloomington, California]]<ref>{{Cite press release |title=West Colton Yard |publisher=Union Pacific |url=https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@newsinfo/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_up_facilities_west_colton.pdf |access-date=June 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606112457/https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@newsinfo/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_up_facilities_west_colton.pdf |archive-date=June 6, 2019}}</ref>

In the late 2010s, Union Pacific began deactivating hump yards in favor of flat switching.  In this, Union Pacific followed the industry-wide trend towards [[Precision scheduled railroading|Precision Scheduled Railroading]] (PSR); railway executive [[E. Hunter Harrison|Hunter Harrison]] explained that under PSR, few yards receive enough variegated traffic to necessitate a hump.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ziobro |first=Paul |date=April 18, 2017 |title=New CSX CEO Shakes up the Railroad, Starting with 'Hump Yards' |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/railroad-chief-ramps-up-by-closing-ramps-1492531098?shareToken=st198cd33377f74fd2b90c29358d40e473 |work=Wall Street Journal |quote='Hump yards are very complicated and expensive and work when you’re bringing things in from lots of directions'...'The more you do preblocking, the more you don’t need the complexity-solving machine that is a hump yard.'}}</ref>  Union Pacific also closed facilities in [[Kansas City]] ("Neff yard"), [[Hinkle, Oregon]], and [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]] in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cordes |first=Henry J. |date=October 20, 2019 |title=Union Pacific sees 'outstanding' results 1 year into efficiency push, but workforce has been cut 13% |url=https://www.nptelegraph.com/townnews/railway/union-pacific-sees-outstanding-results-year-into-efficiency-push-but/article_41b0ebbd-e710-5486-a404-bdd6a92c3a5e.html |access-date=October 26, 2019 |website=North Platte Telegraph}}</ref>