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Like their counterparts at railroads of every size, fiscal shape and focus, the executive team at Union Pacific Railroad continues to make operational adjustments so that North America's largest freight road will be ready to roll once the economy rebounds, as Managing Editor Jeff Stagl reports in this month's cover story (see page 28). Just when a rebound might occur, howrnnoticeable it'll be when it does and what the economic landscape will look like, post-recovery, were still any forecaster's guess as we went to press in early September. When the economy does pick up, UP President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Young's hunch is that it'll be "a trickle and not a flood," as he told Stagl. The keys, he added, are jobs and consumer confidence.