Merger would give UP unprecedented role in Chicago and more control of rail industry, critics warn

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago for more than a century.

Train hits, kills person on tracks in Berkeley

A train hit and killed a pedestrian on the tracks in Berkeley on Monday morning, authorities said. The incident happened just ...
FreightWaves

STB rejects “incomplete” UP-NS merger application

The Surface Transportation Board rejected as incomplete the merger application by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to create the first transcontinental railroad.
Trains

Union Pacific CEO tells customers they will benefit from merger

You could say that Jim Vena’s latest salvo in the war of words over the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger was ...

Pedestrian struck by freight train rescued from railroad tracks in NE Portland

Portland Fire & Rescue crews used a ladder from Interstate 84 to reach and rescue a person struck by a freight train in ...
Trains on MSN

Farmer reiterates that BNSF has ‘no interest’ in merger

BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer still doesn’t see further rail industry consolidation as inevitable if a Union Pacific-Norfolk ...
KUTV

Man hit by train after going around lowered barricade at Provo railroad crossing

PROVO, Utah (KUTV) — A man was killed on Thursday morning after he was struck by a Union Pacific freight train at a railroad crossing in Provo. Janna-Lee Holland with the Provo Police Department said ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Proposed railroad merger could eventually increase local train traffic

A proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads promises to revolutionize freight transportation if it wins federal approval, creating the first single-line American railroad to ...