Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern say their yard and terminal capacity expansion plans will help ensure that the combined ...

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 ...

To make money on its proposed cross-country railroad, Union Pacific plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side where workers still throw switches by hand ...

FILE - A maintenance worker walks past the company logo on the side of a locomotive in the Union Pacific Railroad fueling yard in north Denver, Oct. 18, 2006. (AP ...

Dallas Morning News file photo The Fort Worth Fire Department responded to a derailment of a Union Pacific train leaking chemicals Sunday morning, which caused a brief shelter-in-place order. Nine ...

A plan to build the first transcontinental freight railroad in the U.S. is putting a spotlight on a chokepoint in American rail shipping. Today, no single railroad controls tracks from the West Coast ...

ADDIS, La. (WAFB) - A Union Pacific train derailed last night near a subdivision just off Peter Messina Road, with crews working through the night to clear the scene. Eight rail cars came off the ...