Union Pacific’s plan to add trains in the Chicago area raises alarms

In a merger application, the railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West ...
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Merger filing portends Amtrak operating issues, precludes expanded service: Analysis

The Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger application filed with the Surface Transportation Board on Friday attempts to ...
FreightWaves

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern file historic rail merger application

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

Editorial: Will Chicago see fewer freight trains after the megamerger of Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific?

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...
WHNT

REPORT: Norfolk Southern agrees to give Amtrak trains highest priority, make delay records available to DOJ

ALABAMA (WHNT) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it reached a settlement with Norfolk Southern to resolve allegations that the company delayed Amtrak customer trains along a route in ...