Now you're telling UP how to interpret definitions? Going from one main to another even if in the same direction is moving on to another route (in the eyes of the UP).

And who cares what the UP's motivation is behind safety? They care about it and take it quite seriously. That's all that should matter to us employees.

Usually we complain about how the railroad doesn't care about safety, then when they make a change to enhance safety we all whine about how it doesn't work for us. My favorite example are the green vests. The company spends 10's of thousands of dollars to enhance visibility (which does work quite well) and all the employees do is complain about having to wear them. It drives me crazy. You (we) can't have it both ways...