A growing mix of rail customers, lawmakers and even a competitor have been publicly speaking out against the proposed Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific merger in the months since it was announced.

Norfolk Southern Kenova District Terminal organized having Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Christmas Caboose visit Kenova, Wayne County, on Dec. 11, 2025.

Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific filed paperwork Friday and are now making their case to federal regulators to approve a ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts. The merger discussions began during the first ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts. The merger discussions began ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific Corp. (UP) and Norfolk Southern Corp. filed a nearly 7,000-page application with the US Surface ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

() – Three Democratic members of Congress are urging federal regulators to give careful consideration to the proposed merger ...

Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the ...