Union Pacific closes Downtown El Paso, Texas locomotive repair shop, lays off workers

By Vic Kolenc, El Paso Times, November 30, 2018

Union Pacific Railroad has closed its longtime locomotive repair shop in El Paso and laid off workers as part of the company’s nationwide streamlining plan.

Union Pacific on Nov. 26 laid off 191 people who do mechanical work on train locomotives nationwide, including an unspecified number in El Paso, Kristen South, a Union Pacific spokeswoman at the company’s Omaha, Neb, headquarters, said in an email.

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