The Surface Transportation Board calls Union Pacific’s proposed $85 billion merger pact with Norfolk Southern incomplete.

The Surface Transportation Board rejected as incomplete the merger application by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to create the first transcontinental railroad.

The Surface Transportation Board today said it aims to repeal regulations that have effectively prevented sole-served carload ...

Republican Richard Kloster, whose nomination to an open seat on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) failed to exit the ...

The Surface Transportation Board proposed changes to make it easier for shippers to get freight services from a railroad that ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are withholding key documents that are needed for rival railroads, shippers, ...

Following the submission of the application regarding the proposed $85 billion historic merger between Class I railroads ...

Major railroads have gone silent since the Surface Transportation Board rejected Union Pacific Corp.’s application to acquire ...

Changes are being made in a nearly 2-year-old federal government requirement regarding performance levels at four Class I freight railroads. In April and May 2022, STB held a public hearing and later ...

In a decision predicted by Railway Age (“Why Not a Merger Timeout?,” Watching Washington, November 2025 issue), the Surface ...