Planned as hump yard, Texas facility to be used for block swapping By Bill Stephens for trntrains.com Union Pacific will write off half the value of the aborted hump yard it was building in Hearne, Texas, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday morning. UP in April 2019 stopped construction of the $550 million […]
Union Pacific Corp. has paused construction of a $550 million facility planned for Robertson County near Hearne, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The 1,875-acre facility, which would host long trains being broken down into individual cars, had been under construction since its January 2018 groundbreaking. As previously reported by The Eagle, the Brazos […]
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) confirmed that it is slowing down its pace of construction at the multi-million dollar Brazos classification yard in Robertson County, Texas. This comes amid UNP’s plans to implement precision scheduled railroading (PSR) and modify its operating plan to minimize railcar classification events. UNP “has slowed the pace of construction as we […]
MUMFORD, Texas (KBTX) A major project promising hundreds of new jobs in Robertson County is being scaled back. Union Pacific announced they have reduced the amount of contractors working at the new Brazos Yard being built in Mumford. It’s a large train yard expansion project under construction in Robertson County. Previously, the railroad said 500 […]