Critics warn rail merger would give Union Pacific unprecedented role in Chicago and more control of industry

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

Union Pacific has completed expansion of its Casa Grande Yard, doubling capacity at the facility about 70 miles west of Tucson on the railroad’s Gila Subdivision. The project added four tracks and a ...
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Biggest rail union joins others in endorsing Union Pacific merger but some still have reservations

FILE - A maintenance worker walks past the company logo on the side of a locomotive in the Union Pacific Railroad fueling yard in north Denver, Oct. 18, 2006. (AP ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Union Pacific proposes buy of railroad for $85B

Union Pacific announced Tuesday that it had reached an agreement to acquire Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, and ...
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Is Union Pacific’s proposed merger the best way to speed up deliveries?

A plan to build the first transcontinental freight railroad in the U.S. is putting a spotlight on a chokepoint in American rail shipping. Today, no single railroad controls tracks from the West Coast ...