Union Pacific Railroad's average train speed 2013-2023

In 2023, Union Pacific's trains reached an average speed of about 24.2 miles per hour. The average speed is influenced by network fluidity. 

Union Pacific as a market leader

As of May 2024, the U.S. railway company was ranked the largest in the world at a market value of just over 149 billion U.S. dollars. The company initiated a program to repurchase its own shares in 2010. As a result, the number of shares outstanding declined to 622 million in the 2022 fiscal year and Union Pacific's earnings per share increased to 11.21 U.S. dollars.

Freight revenue in North America

With the longest rail network in the world, the U.S. capitalizes on its railway by transporting commodities such as agricultural and intermodal products across its rail routes. In the 2023 fiscal year, Union Pacific reported that industrial commodities (comprising industrial construction, chemicals, among other things) contributed the most to freight revenue. Revenue streams for Canadian National Railway in the same year reveal that intermodal commodities and agriculture were among the commodities that boasted the highest freight revenue.