We are on the cusp of what has the potential to be one of the most transformational times in the history of U.S. railroading. On July 24 of this year, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced what ...

The railroads say competitors' objections are "baseless" and improperly argue the merits rather than the completeness of the filing.

It was also a year of merger innovation among the midsize cohort, as some firms entered multiple combinations in the span of ...

Recent changes expand federal and state pre-merger review laws, increasing compliance costs. Washington, Colorado and others are adopting stricter laws requiring companies to notify states of certain ...

Most mergers are engineered for efficiency. Systems are aligned, redundancies eliminated, and structures combined. Yet despite careful planning, most mergers fail to deliver on their strategic promise ...

BNSF Railway Chief Marketing Officer Tom Williams warned customers on Tuesday, Jan. 6, that the proposed Union ...