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News Wire: UP updates customers on Midwest weather woes

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Friday, March 15, 2019 3:17 PM

OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific has issued the following customer service advisory following a week of extreme weather in the Midwest. The troubles essentially close the railroad's main line between Boone, Iowa, and Gibbon, Neb., a source close to ...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/03/15-up-updates-customers-on-midwest-weather-woes

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Posted by NielsenSTL on Saturday, March 16, 2019 8:41 AM

I happened to be in Kirkwood, MO along the UP Jefferson City Sub and saw a couple of re-routes last night (3/15)...both Z trains...which rarely show up on the Jeff City Sub.  I only caught the symbol one of them...believe it was ZBRG1.  So I assume he was getting around the NE/IA flooding, coming through KC and then east to STL and then back north to Chicago.

Mark

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