Union Pacific has extensive experience moving both hazardous and non-hazardous waste by rail. We’ve shipped food waste, expired nuclear reactors, and everything in between, and we’ve shipped municipal solid waste to landfills by train for more than 30 years.

May 19, 2021 · BNSF Railway and Union Pacific garbage trains have been running for more than 30 years from the Seattle area. Both railroads move container trains loaded with waste south on BNSF’s Seattle Subdivision (UP has trackage rights on this line) before heading east through the Gorge on their own lines — BNSF on the north side and UP on the south side.

Watch a UP trash train as it passes under a pedestrian bridge in Kalama, Washington. The train is traveling south on the Seattle Subdivision.

Union Pacific customer WM (formerly Waste Management) is well aware of those facts. In 2022, Union Pacific moved more containers for this customer than in any other single year. Transporting waste by rail from Seattle to Arlington, Oregon, is part of …

Union Pacific runs train... There's one freight train in the Northwest that stands out from the rest of the country's, that would be the garbage freight trains.

Mar 22, 1994 · In 1991, USPCI, under Union Pacific ownership, opened the hazardous waste disposal site at Clive, a siding in western Utah on UP's former Western Pacific mainline between Salt Lake City and Wendover. The cost to develop the site was reported as $200 million.

Feb 23, 2023 · The city of Eugene has hit Union Pacific Railroad with more than $216,000 in fines for failing to clear piles of trash from homeless camps along rail lines north of Franklin Boulevard for a half-mile stretch of the Willamette River.

Union Pacific (UP) 9344 is one of five C40-8s leading a westbound APL double stack train at Altamont, CA on the former WP line as it crosses over the abandoned SP right of way on Monday, March 20, 1989.

Feb 10, 2021 · I saw one of these trains go by in the last week or two headed that had an SD-40-2 with Waste Management lettering (looked like the old BN black/green scheme) and GMTX reporting marks trailing the UP units.

Apr 10, 2024 · Downtown Reno Partnership Executive Director Neoma Jardon on Monday blasted Union Pacific Railroad allegedly for not managing massive amounts of trash along train tracks in Reno. Jardon said DRP workers had to clean up 44 tons of trash on UP property, which she said may not even be legal.