As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

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 ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

Jeremy Ferguson, leader of SMART-TD, the nation's largest rail labor union, says Union-Pacific's proposed merger with Norfolk Southern will create a transcontinental rail network that introduces new ...

Most Americans associate innovation with new technologies. But modernization is equally important in the industries that move ...

As Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads’ seismic merger proposal awaits federal consideration, suburbs most affected by the plan aren’t sitting on the sidelines. Seven municipalities crossed ...

Deal would create US transcontinental freight giant STB's regulatory review expected to take 16 months after filing Trump admin's antitrust shift enables deals seen before as no-go Unions plan to ...

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 ...

SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD), the largest rail labor organization in the U.S., tells CNBC it will oppose the proposed merger between freight rails Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. The ...

A freight train derailment in downtown Austin last month is prompting Travis County Judge Andy Brown to renew calls to move a major rail line out of the city’s urban core — a long-debated idea that ...