Union Pacific upgrades local rail lines

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

by Brian S. Orban

Union Pacific crews replace ties on the main line running along the Sunset Strip portion of Old Highway 30 last week. Photo by Brian S. Orban

Workers with Union Pacific Railroad rolled through Mountain Home last week as part of a multi-million dollar project to upgrade the company's existing rail lines across southern Idaho.

Mountain Home in one of several communities benefitting from the corporation's $23.1 transportation infrastructure project, which runs from here to Weiser and from Pocatello to Idaho Falls to the east.

As the project moved closer to the city, railroad workers staged out of Railroad Park with buses transporting the crews to the actual work sites.

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Wow, and all for $23.1

What a bargain

-- Posted by Fairplay on Wed, Jul 27, 2011, at 11:42 AM
I thought the same thing Faiplay..... lol

-- Posted by BassmasterJ8 on Wed, Jul 27, 2011, at 9:28 PM
From what I used to get paid for doing that job sounds about right. We didn't have any machinery to use back then just a shovel, tongs, and spike hammer.

-- Posted by skeeter on Sat, Jul 30, 2011, at 5:15 AM

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