Surface Transportation Board

Customs and Border Protection will continue to fund cargo inspections and other essential services during a government shutdown.

Surface Transportation Board wants longer timeline to review proposed tie-up that would create first transcontinental railroad.

President Donald Trump said that the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern forming the first U.S. transcontinental railroad “sounds good to me.” 

A coalition of rail shippers warns regulators that the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger will hurt service and raise costs.

President Trump has nominated longtime rail industry consultant Richard Kloster to the Surface Transportation Board. 

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern argue rival interline alliances prove their proposed merger enhances railroad competition.

The Surface Transportation Board has approved the acquisition of 420-mile regional Great Lakes Central Railroad by Watco. 

President Trump on Tuesday fired Surface Transportation Board member Robert E. Primus, the board’s lone member to oppose the CP-KCS merger in 2023.

BNSF Railway and CSX said they will partner on seamless coast-to-coast rail service, just weeks after Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern proposed their own transcontinental merger. 

Leading policy and technology experts will deliver keynotes.

The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis has issued its final Environmental Impact Statement for the Green Eagle Railroad, a 1.3-mile line that would be part of a new 19-mile rail route and bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negas, Mexico. The Green Eagle Railroad would be part of a secure corridor for […]

The proposed acquisition creates the first transcontinental freight railroad.

Eliminating interchange should make rail a more attractive option for shippers in nation’s midsection, George and Vena tell analysts

Shippers wary of higher rates, service issues with one entity controlling 52,000 miles of track.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced a merger that will create the first transcontinental railroad with an enterprise value of more than $250 billion.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern could announce a merger as early  as next week, according to a published report.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern on Thursday confirmed that they are in advanced discussions regarding a merger.

Intermodal would be approximately 53% of a combined entity’s volume.

A trio of veteran experts will advise the Surface Transportation Board and chairman Patrick Fuchs as talk of mergers grows louder. 

In a business as tightly coupled to its past as railroading, there is much at stake for several individuals in the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger.