Union Pacific Intermodal Ramp Operations Tour

Union Pacific is the premier Intermodal solution, connecting our nation's cities, businesses and supply chains. To continue to provide reliable service to customers, it is important to understand how our intermodal ramps operate in order to maintain safety, security and efficiency. This tour of our intermodal ramp operations will help you understand how they work, the procedures to follow and more importantly, how to stay safe on Union Pacific property.
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[@hakeemsd70m]

Great video on the operations of the Intermodal terminal. I always wondered how all these facilities work and this is quite fascinating to me. Thank you Union Pacific workers, all of the truckers, and the container ships for moving our cargo safely.

[@outdoorsguy]

Why am I watching this? I don't even ship containers by train 🤣

[@25mfd]

good question... but you are, unbeknownst to you, IMPACTED by the containers shipped by rail

[@outdoorsguy]

@@25mfd That is true... After a year I totally forgot I watched this video...

[@Cooperbokeh]

Because you’re a man and at one point was a little boy who loved seeing or playing with trains. I don’t think we can help it

[@Pilotguy251HC]

Nice video! More EMD Power I see. My Favorite!! I would love to see one done on an autorack facility. It would be cool to see how they are handled.

[@garrenzo360]

Love intermodal trains!!

[@bridgetroll9]

Profit is our top priority.

[@calebmanuel17]

S

[@mikegaskin5542]

Said every corporation, ever

[@outdoorsguy]

Without profit, safety is guaranteed... because you'll be at home, laid off, as the company goes out of business. Without safety, there is no profit... as unsafe work environment lawsuits, increased worker's compensation insurance premiums, and bad PR from an unsafe work environment drive the company out of business.

[@bigredc222]

I'm going to start a company, work 12-16 hours a day, but I'm not interested in making money, I just want all my employees to be happy.

[@yolo_burrito]

Yeah, safety should be a core value not a priority as priorities change.

[@imeldaortizgarcia7727]

Años atrás yo no sabía que Unión Pacífico tenía su empresa estibadora de contenedores, Felicidades por ser una empresa ferroviaria competente

[@imeldaortizgarcia7727]

jomax clux No Se Hablar Inglés Friend

[@LDEGM]

Amazing movie! Thumbs Up

[@douglaskirk2543]

EXCELLENT UP. Great Work . . . Not Suprised your RR is Fantastic. Thank you for Superior Performance and attention to details.

[@Aka.Gina2022]

It would be nice if you could make the Kansas City facility that clean and paved

[@TickledFunnyBone]

2:55 Gosh golly gee wilickers i got a receipt that doesn't belong to me lol

[@victorhugocastillopino3085]

Lo filisito unión pacifi 🤝🇺🇸🤝🇨🇴

[@dannycruz2480]

is this Salt Lake City?

[@royubaldo9391]

yeah.

[@LandonBain]

i’d be nice if you folks built one in grand junction

[@imeldaortizgarcia7727]

Unión Pacific Es La Mejor Empresa Ferroviaria En Estados Unidos

[@fredgurney9154]

That’s was filmed in Salt Lake City utah

[@gallo2749]

They want to talk about safety they should start by getting new equipment. Everyone on the intermodal business just I complain a lot the long wait the rudeness of the people working at the railroad and don't treat the truck driver with fairness and respect at the end of the day with the guys bring the stuff in delivery to the customers I'm picking it up from the customers to bring it into the rail but no one seems to care don't care how long we wait or how long we have to pay form

[@mattberg6785]

juan flores truckers get treated like shit everywhere

[@kofola9145]

Well, imagine there is a company. It wastes fuel, labour and is much more damaging to nature and infrastructure. But it puts you out of 50% of our bussiness, because the government decided to pay 25% of their expences. If you are able to treat those people with fairness and respect despite this blatant injustice, then you are a very good person.

[@matthewc.gutierrez2348]

That’s life

[@matthewc.gutierrez2348]

@James Kirk safety is safety there is no shortcuts in safety

[@MultiSuperman800]

Great Video.

[@yixnorb5971]

Did Lionel ever make these?

[@erikcarter4008]

I wonder if with time, as robotics progress and rails become electrified, if we could expect to see individual flatcars take trailers and autonomously deliver them ?

[@hostilepancakes]

jomax clux Agreed. Even with fuel costs cut out, trucks will still be less efficient than rail for distances greater than 600-750 miles -- simply because a single freight train can pull over 150 freight cars (300 containers if the line allows double-stack trains) with a crew of only 2-4 people. Also, for trucks going from Southern California to Chicago, the speed advantage is very small, if any -- BNSF runs its freight trains on the Hutchinson Main at 70 mph(!). Another corridor where trucks have minimal speed advantage is along I-80 in Nebraska, between Gibbon and North Platte (the Kearney Sub, aka the Triple Track Main). Overall, UP narrows the trucks' speed advantage between Laramie, Wyoming and Chicago to a minimum.

[@frankym274]

Awesome I Want Those

[@ericpowers2469]

The counter video, showing all the defects on intermodal chassis that the railroad refuses to fix.

[@oubrioko]

I have *never* seen UMAX/EMP containers grounded on brand new pristine pool chassis like these. _Never._

[@shawndorsett13]

come over to port of oakland and most of the chassis are rusted out and dont have the turn signals working and the drivers trucks look like hell

[@oubrioko]

@@shawndorsett13 Yep. That's what I'm used to seeing.

[@robertodelira.6138]

Nice

[@rrich52806]

Amazing

[@nomadcowatbk]

why don't they look?

[@msimm8612]

Been there done that

[@ivanmckinney1881]

UP-UMAX-EMP.............R-O-C-K-S!!!!!

[@ChachaChapati]

Seems Hub is another ubiquitous domestic 53-foot container on UP's line.

[@LIMowersAndMore]

big boy restoration update???????

[@joshuaericilac]

Peter Lombardi you can find this update if you go to the Upsteam page on facebook or the Upsteam page on here

[@CassioSerra]

Big railroad.

[@GDP999-z1u]

do you know what all of you should do with the steam program, after 4014 is done you guys should and let Norfolk southern know when you are done, you take your 3 steamers 844, 3985, and 4014 and they have 611, 1218, and 2156 (if they ever consider it). then west meets east in the middle of the country and both railways could do a 6 steam engine header and go all around the country. anyways I hope you read this comment and respond and hope you at least think about how historic this would be. if you don't its ok, but this will never happen again. just imagine this happening. I hope you respond

[@joshuaericilac]

Gross Domestic Plums I don't think the UP 3985 will ever see steam again there busy using parts from 3985 if I recall to help repair the UP 4014

[@hakeemsd70m]

Joshua Ilac 3985 and 4014 are not the same class of engine, therefore they cannot use the same parts. The 3985 is part of the 3900 Challenger 4-6-6-4 Steamers while the 4014 is part of the 4000 class Big Boy 4 - 8 - 8 - 4 steamers. Two totally different locomotives at different lengths in different classes could not possibly share the same parts as they would simply not fit together correctly.

[@royreynolds108]

@@hakeemsd70m The two locos may not be the same class but I bet some of the appliances are interchangeable.

[@fredgrebner526]

O, BS. Let’s be real. Money is the top priority. Who ya kidding?

[@demetriuswilliams8969]

What's a empty load?

[@casipie]

Demetrius Williams when there is no load inside a can. If you’re just bringing an empty back

[@ECOHOP]

Ya

[@policegta40]

im so late

[@paulhernandez5369]

People on the up office are lazzy

[@billowybee9864]

238mariusz

[@mellowfellow4755]

You would have though a man employed to do corporate voiceovers would be able to pronounce a word like premier

[@conraillock1299]

good but badly up

[@dogmannz]

OMG if this video is an example of UP's best then god help us. Couldn't you guys at least have paid a professional voice over artist? I mean, seriously, you are putting this out there as an example of your quality and you've used an amateur to voice it who has no idea what he's doing.

[@yesicacruz868]

4:12. United Airlines landing at SLC.

[@artemisteletormech769]

I remember when Alliance shippers decided to go through Union Pacific for a while. Long story short, the reefer trailers were sitting on train cars for up to three or four days in Portland and they would run out of fuel before they were grounded. If I never deal with that shit hole yard again it'll be too soon

[@dan-fr9dn]

Just wish these containers drivers follow the rules of the road once they leave the yard. 71st and harlem ,they run red lights and turn right in front of you when you have the green SMH

[@AmtrakandAWVRFan]

really nice UP! i always wondered how trucks and trains move in your train yards! Thanks for posting!

[@SecretToySupply]

Amtrak and AWVR Fan xander

[@taithompson965]

Amtrak and AWVR Favourite 👋 hi

[@CaliLifeTCG]

Just learned about this yesterday in San Bernardino

[@imeldaortizgarcia7727]

Como me encantaría trabajar en una empresa como Unión Pacífico, pero lo bueno que me sigo preparando

[@themasoners3161]

I should be your future employee as well. I would drive an ES44AC because those are my favorites

[@randomentertainment8927]

Recently got a job as a ground worker/hostler driver, outside drivers get very annoying vary fast. The 3rd party drivers never know where to go and just kinda drive around aimlessly. Get in our way a lot, and nearly cause accidents because they don't know our yard and hit a bump going way too fast. The actual UPS drivers (our yard is shared by UPS) are alright because they're here all the time, but they still like to act like they own the yard

[@issacpadilla5285]

How’s the pay?

[@randomentertainment8927]

@issacpadilla5285 it was really good. $17.50 base with guaranteed overtime every week. I was making $1000-1300 per week but I had to leave due to the extreme hours, things at home, and not being able to do anything with friends and family causing my mental health to plummet

[@beckiverson1531]

L + fell off + electrify + run passenger service

[@tsmaximus1237]

if you're watching this you're either a person that actually needs to know how to get onto this train thing or your some kid that really likes trains I am that kid

[@TheClari25]

Or someone who needs to write an essay about this 😔

[@tsmaximus1237]

@@TheClari25 wait you do

[@DetroitLions1984]

Lol about to work at the csx Detroit location.

[@tannerrobinson5110]

I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, but would it possibly be more efficient to have another 3rd party operating the entrance and exit points for the truck, along with yard coordination?

[@hostilepancakes]

Tanner Robinson Many intermodal facilities are served by only one Class I railroad (UP, BNSF, NS, CSX, CN, CP, KCS) -- at those facilities, there's zero competition on the rail side of things, and UP operating this one in the video means there isn't a 3rd party operator to compensate (apparently it more than makes up for the fact that UP needs to maintain the facility).

[@royreynolds108]

That just increases costs without any value.

[@kelvinhenderson6234]

Ok thanks.

[@raulkovacs5113]

Great work !

[@jj14377]

What is a live load facility?

[@casipie]

Live LetLive where they have the driver pull right up next to the track and the containers is live loaded onto the train straight from the truck instead of the driver just dropping the entire unit in the rail yard

[@donnieobrien1297]

Is intermodal a container that goes via train & then by truck?

[@martintheiss4038]

a container that uses two forms of transit such as truck and train.

[@royreynolds108]

@@martintheiss4038 Add ship(sea) to the mix of intermodal. And air. ship to truck or train to truck or ship on the other end depending on where the container starts out and is supposed to end its trip.

[@Dani-vo2zm]

Is this what a laborer does?

[@haldierose7189]

Can someone tell me how do they call the thing that looks like a shed, where they have all the cameras on the sides to take images of the trucks?

[@royreynolds108]

I think I heard Integral Ramp. It could also be called Camera House or Camera Shed.

[@CassioSerra]

number 1

[@cindy.jwitmore4475]

do you wiegh the trailers and loads

[@joshuaericilac]

Cindy .J Witmore I am pretty sure they have to just for safety of the load and liability for the company

[@danielrose1392]

Usually the crane weights it, at least at the site I visited in germany. A built in scale allowed for precise measurements to protect other equipment and the crane itself had the winch torque limited to prevent it from any structural damage. For any loads up to 120t the operator would receive a warning. For any load exceeding 120t the crane would refuse to lift the load and go into emergency shutdown. Same was true for the reach stackers. There was no precision scale built in, but they all had safety equipment preventing them from tipping over. Basically the pressure on the rear axle was measured, when low the speed was limited and when dangerously low only possible operations where to put the load back on the ground.

[@martintheiss4038]

Cindy all containers should be weighed especially if they are scheduled to be trucked out. In major industrial or warehouse tracts there should be a gas station or a truck stop that weighs the containers themselves for a small fee to ensure a receipt is printed out so if you are pulled over before your next customer there is proof that after you left your previous warehouse there was documentation the weight was under the legal maximum.

[@royreynolds108]

A truck driver is required to know the GVW of the truck. A truck can not travel over most of the highways of over 80,000 lbs GVW without special permits except for limited conditions. The length, height, and width of the vehicle with load are also given unless special permits are obtained.

[@eddiewillis4539]

Besafe

[@guavs.0958]

Can u put a flatbed trailer or a tanker trailer on a train?

[@joshuaericilac]

Fluffy Cheese tanker trailers I am not sure of but I have seen lowboys transported via rail and also some straight flat beds transported by rail

[@mac81659]

guavs .0 some tankers have the same pin out as a container

[@royreynolds108]

Yes.

[@kelvinhenderson6234]

What happened to southern Pacific railroad.

[@unionpacific]

Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific merged in 1996. You can read more at www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/heritage/southern_pacific/index.htm

[@ReinaldoRauch]

+Kelvin Henderson Read about SP - UP merger

[@royubaldo9391]

union Pacific brought southern Pacific in 1996.

[@royubaldo9391]

it is now a fallen flag.

[@joshuaericilac]

roy ubaldo its not a fallen flag .... the southern pacific is still being used it was just consumed along with the central and western pacific railroads making what we now call the Union Pacific railroad a lot of southern pacific railroad equipment is still being used by the UP and also by a lot of tourist railroads

[@1972mjones]

Is this biometric check-in legal? Seems to me it violates drivers' civil rights

[@royreynolds108]

You have to have a criminal background check, a medical check, and a very thorough schooling and exam to get a CDL.

[@scoobycarr5558]

It's the same in Portland while trailers and containers are handled on Union Pacific with one of its intermodal trains through the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. BTW I'm doing a stack train on UP's former Southern Pacific on MSTS Train Simulator between Klamath Falls and Eugene, but the equipment is of Canadian origin.

[@ДмитрийМихайлович-г6й]

Guys can u help me pls? i am from Russia and i need to do this exercise. 2. At an intermodal ramp driver usually go through the lane designated only for trucks with empty loads. 3. There are two types of gates: automated and manual. 4. It’s difficult for drivers to register at the main office. 5. For trailers cranes' arms lower on the left and right sides of the trailer body. 6. Customers can track their shipments’ movement any time, but it’s very difficult to do. True or False or Doesn't say

[@royreynolds108]

True

[@MrCameronsterling]

Informative, thanks UP for explaining how this is done