Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

A new agreement between two railroad giants, Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, will create America’s first transcontinental railroad, to be called the Union Pacific ...

Plate 227, "East and West shaking hands at laying of the last rail," Promontory Summit, Utah. Photograph was taken by Andrew Russell on May 10, 1869. General Dodge, chief engineer for Union Pacific, ...

Photo of Tiahjae Silas Paige. The proposed merger, announced Tuesday, would marry Union Pacific’s vast rail network in the West with Norfolk’s rails that snake across the Eastern United States. The ...

Following a heavy amount of speculation that Omaha-based Union Pacific (UP) was taking steps to acquire Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern (NS), in first Class I railroad merger since the April 2023 deal, ...

This week marks 163 years since Cruz first broke ground on the first transcontinental railroad, and it all started here in what's now old Sacramento. And joining us this morning, we have Ty Smith from ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, potentially triggering a final wave of rail ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to ...

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