WASHINGTON — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are withholding key documents that are needed for rival railroads, shippers, and regulators to properly evaluate their transcontinental merger proposal, ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer still doesn’t see further rail industry consolidation as inevitable if a ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern's bid to create the largest rail merger in history was rejected last week by federal ...

BNSF Railway’s bid to have federal regulators review Union Pacific’s compliance with conditions imposed as part of the 1996 UP-Southern Pacific merger is nothing more than a publicity stunt, UP told ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — The CEOs of Canadian Pacific Kansas City and BNSF Railway took aim at the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk ...

Control of a key local entity is one of the reasons the Surface Transportation Board denied the merger application for now.

BNSF provides an operational performance update. Also, Norfolk Southern (NS) generates record scrap metal revenue; and CN's ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern's application did not include the full merger agreement and failed to provide information ...

Fighting the merger is a “very high priority for us,” said Zak Andersen, vice president of communications for BNSF Railway. “We think it destabilizes the industry,” he said of the proposed merger, ...

BNSF Railway today announced the Class I railroad has filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), requesting the immediate review and enforcement of conditions imposed during the ...

In a decision predicted by Railway Age (“Why Not a Merger Timeout?,” Watching Washington, November 2025 issue), the Surface ...

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...