Union Pacific's proposed purchase of smaller rival rail operator Norfolk Southern will need to be approved by the Surface ...

Amtrak and Union Pacific have reached a settlement in their dispute over performance of the Sunset Limited and have asked the Surface Transportation Board to end its investigation into the train’s ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion ...

More than two and a half years after Amtrak called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to initiate an investigation ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern's merger could streamline freight through Chicago — or sideline it. Here's what’s at stake ...

U.S. Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) are urging the Surface Transportation Board to “keep the best ...

Union Pacific is seeking to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad ...

If you think federal regulatory agencies—even federally owned Amtrak—have strayed from what former Southern Railway and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Surface Transportation Board said on Wednesday that Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have ...

The railroads argue a merger would streamline deliveries of raw materials and goods nationwide by eliminating delays when ...

The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states.

The $85 billion agreement is expected to take years to be completed, a process that includes an application with the Surface ...