Portland , Oregon conductor promoted to Vice President of western Region Union Pacific service units

Kevin J. McDowell has secretly obtained the head position as new Vice President of the Western Region Service Units of the Union Pacific Railroad. He stated that he did not want a lot of attention brought to his application process, so he typically took days off his regular asignment as road conductor in order to fulfill the application process.Mr. McDowell also stated that one of his main goals as V.P. of Western Region will to be a firm hand and cleaning up absenteeism (continue on next page)