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News Wire: Former UP public relations chief dies

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 7:59 AM

One gets the impression that the Lewis era in the mid to late 1980’s so changed the Union Pacific company that McCartney left.  It has to be wondered if Kenefick had chosen someone within the company to succeed him instead of the outsider Lewis if McCartney would have stayed at UP until he retired.

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 10:22 AM

OMAHA, Neb. — Joe McCartney, who ran public relations for Union Pacific through most of the 1980s, died March 3 in Omaha, Neb., following a long illness. He was 79 years old. McCartney grew up in Omaha, and after college, taught journalism for...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/03/13-obituary-of-union-pacifics-joe-mccartney

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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