The Surface Transportation Board has combined its two legal offices into one and named Anika Cooper as chief counsel, the board has announced. The changes were announced Monday (Aug. 4, 2025), but ...

U.S. railroad customer groups have demanded regulators block or put onerous conditions on the proposed merger of Union ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Union Pacific's proposed purchase of smaller rival rail operator Norfolk Southern will need to be ...

Last month, Union Pacific said it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S.

Amtrak and Union Pacific have reached a settlement in their dispute over performance of the Sunset Limited and have asked the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The largest rail union in the U.S. will oppose Union Pacific's ( NYSE: UNP) planned $72 billion acquisition of Norfolk ...

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