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5
PART I
Item 1. Business
GENERAL
Union Pacific Corporation owns one of America’s leading transportation companies. Its principal operating
company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country. Union
Pacific Railroad Company serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers and provides
Americans with a fuel-efficient, environmentally responsible and safe mode of freight transportation.
Union Pacific Railroad Company’s diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive,
Chemicals, Energy, Industrial Products and Intermodal. Union Pacific Railroad Company emphasizes
excellent customer service and offers competitive routes from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports
to eastern gateways. Union Pacific Railroad Company connects with Canada’s rail systems and is the
only railroad serving all six major gateways to Mexico, making it North America’s premier rail franchise.
Union Pacific Corporation was incorporated in Utah in 1969 and maintains its principal executive offices
at 1400 Douglas Street, Omaha, NE 68179. The telephone number at that address is (402) 544-5000.
The common stock of Union Pacific Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under
the symbol “UNP”.
For purposes of this report, unless the context otherwise requires, all references herein to “UPC”,
“Corporation”, “we”, “us”, and “our” shall mean Union Pacific Corporation and its subsidiaries, including
Union Pacific Railroad Company, which we separately refer to as “UPRR” or the “Railroad”.
Available Information – Our Internet website is www.up.com. We make available free of charge on our
website (under the “Investors” caption link) our Annual Reports on Form 10-K; our Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q; eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) documents for our 2009 and 2010 Annual
Report on Form 10-K, our 2010 Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and our 2009 Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q for the second and third quarters; our current reports on Form 8-K; our proxy statements;
Forms 3, 4, and 5, filed on behalf of directors and executive officers; and amendments to such reports
filed or furnished pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), as
soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We also make available on our website previously filed
SEC reports and exhibits via a link to EDGAR on the SEC’s Internet site at www.sec.gov. Additionally, our
corporate governance materials, including By-Laws, Board Committee charters, governance guidelines
and policies, and codes of conduct and ethics for directors, officers, and employees are available on our
website. From time to time, the corporate governance materials on our website may be updated as
necessary to comply with rules issued by the SEC and the NYSE or as desirable to promote the effective
and efficient governance of our company. Any security holder wishing to receive, without charge, a copy
of any of our SEC filings or corporate governance materials should send a written request to: Secretary,
Union Pacific Corporation, 1400 Douglas Street, Omaha, NE 68179.
We have included the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) certifications
regarding our public disclosure required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as Exhibits
31(a) and (b) to this report.
References to our website address in this report, including references in Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, Item 7, are provided as a convenience and do
not constitute, and should not be deemed, an incorporation by reference of the information contained on,
or available through, the website. Therefore, such information should not be considered part of this report.