As 2026 begins, and with Trains’ top railroading story of 2025 announced on the final day of the just-completed year, we ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern say their yard and terminal capacity expansion plans will help ensure that the combined ...

In a merger application, the railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side.

Transaction to transform the U.S. supply chain and economy; strengthen domestic manufacturing; and preserve union jobs Two legendary railroads enter agreement to combine in stock and cash merger, ...

The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states. By Peter Eavis Union Pacific, a freight rail giant, announced on Tuesday that it had ...

Union Pacific says the $85 billion merger would serve the public interest and win federal approval by unclogging Chicago, the cradle of American railroading and still its biggest and most notorious ...

Thirty-five cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday afternoon near a small Texas town, officials said. No injuries were reported and no evacuations have been ordered following the afternoon ...

When Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced their merger deal Tuesday to form “America’s first transcontinental railroad,” it puzzled some who recalled the golden spike driven in 1869 at Utah’s ...

A new agreement between two railroad giants, Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, will create America’s first transcontinental railroad, to be called the Union Pacific ...