Union Pacific Railroad's average train speed 2013-2021

In 2021, Union Pacific's trains reached an average speed of about 25 miles per hour. The average speed is influenced by network fluidity.

Union Pacific as a market leader

As of May 2021, the U.S. railway company was ranked the largest in the world at a market value of just over 148 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 650 million in the 2019 fiscal year and Union Pacific's earnings per share increased to 8.38 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 2021 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.