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

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

The Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger application filed with the Surface Transportation Board on Friday attempts to explain away adverse effects on passenger trains by vague promises of future ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern file a comprehensive merger application with the Surface Transportation Board to create America’s first transcontinental railroad.

Metra has asked the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to set the terms for an agreement governing its ability to keep ...

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 ...

NOGALES - With an emphatic blaring of its horn, the Union Pacific passenger train pulled up alongside a loading platform in Rio Rico shortly before noon on Wednesday. Sandwiched by two gleaming ...

Sixty-two years ago, this past August, I packed a steamer trunk with a year’s worth of personal belongings and boarded a ...