Across North America, there is a grassroots clamouring for the return of railway lines that once provided a reliable and affordable alternative to cars and planes ...

The proposed merger of Class I’s Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern is unlikely to significantly improve the fortunes of North America’s rail freight market, writes Railway Age Contributing Editor Jim ...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board on Friday sent back Union Pacific’s proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern for revision, saying it lacked required information, as part of a review in ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

(The Center Square) – Several major coal producers and power industry groups are urging federal regulators to approve the proposed Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger. The producers argue that ...

USA: Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern formally applied for Surface Transportation Board approval of their proposed merger on December 19. The Class I railways said the application runs to nearly 7 ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. filed a nearly 7,000-page application with the US Surface Transportation Board on Dec. 19 that requests approval to merge the railroads that ...

Capacity projects needed to support new trains on key routes linking the Southwest and Mexico with the Southeast and Northeast A Union Pacific train with UP and Norfolk Southern power crosses UP’s ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --At least 13 people were killed and 98 injured after a train came off the tracks in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, authorities said. The train, which was en route from Salina ...

An attempt to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast railroad merger is underway, as leaders from the Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific officially filed paperwork Friday and are now making their ...

To make money on its proposed cross-country railroad, Union Pacific plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side where workers still throw switches by hand ...

The merger application submitted Friday by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern—a nearly 7,000-page document spelling out why the landmark deal is in the country's best interest—paints a picture of the ...