Dick Davidson looks back on his life with a touch of amazement and a hefty helping of gratitude. At age 83, he still marvels at its trajectory: a Kansas boy raised by a single mother on a farm without indoor plumbing who joined the railroad as a brakeman to help pay for college and, after graduation, stayed to become chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Railroad. “It’s been a helluva life. I’d never have believed you, if you told me 50 years ago this is how it would turn out,” he says in a telephone interview from Florida, where he and his wife, Trish, live when they’re not in Dallas. “It’s like the American Dream.” Davidson’s story is a part of Union Pacific’s story. He and his team of railroaders played an instrumental role shaping the Union Pacific of today, negotiating successful mergers with Chicago & North Western and Southern Pacific in the 1990s to extend Union Pacific’s coverage in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and Texas and Louisiana. Read his full story at UP.com/InsideTrac...