UP wins Brunel Award for Heritage Locomotive Fleet

Union Pacific's Heritage Locomotive Fleet program was selected as a winner of the 2011 Brunel Awards International Railway Design Competition; a contest evaluated by a jury of international leaders in the area of rail design and engineering. The UP fleet represented the United States in the category of industrial design, corporate branding, graphics and furnishings. UP unveiled the Heritage Locomotive Fleet program in 2005. The locomotives in the fleet each feature a distinctive paint scheme that incorporates elements of one of the six railroads that merged with UP over the company's history. Cesar Vergara, a member of the Brunel Awards Committee, commented on the Heritage Locomotive Fleet's ability to "project the U.S. freight industry's uninterrupted heritage and project the future while celebrating the past."