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"Vena said he has “no idea why the STB should be worried about” the risk that his deal opens the door to more rail mergers."

WOW! Vena has his head in the clouds.

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena Tells Regulators: Ignore Your Own Rules, Just Approve our Merger and Consider Consequences Later Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena wants regulators to disregard their own requirements to approve his merger first and worry about the consequences later. During last...

Merger- Merger- Merger- all this news about the merger.

yadda, yadda, yadda... ... ..." the board exercises its discretion to allow this proceeding to continue.”

Rail News - Rail Passengers Association asks STB to deny UP-NS merger application. For Railroad Career Professionals Railroad industry news about: UP-NS merger, Rail Passengers Association, Surface Transportation Board, Amtrak, service, legal, regulation, Norfolk Southern Railway, Union Pacific Railroad. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

if the $85B deal does somehow satisfy the STB's 2001 merger review rules, Creel says the approval will be so loaded up with conditions to offset its competitive impacts that UP likely would scuttle the merger.

UP-NS merger can’t clear regulatory hurdles, CPKC chief executive says - Trains LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — The proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger will not win regulatory approval because its harms outweigh the benefits, CPKC CEO Keith Creel says. But if the $85 billion deal does somehow satisfy the Surface Transportation Board’s 2001 merger review rules, Creel says ...

Bringing a rail operator back into public ownership after 30 years will save money and provide a better service, a minister has said.

Nationalising Chiltern Railways a 'significant milestone' On Sunday Chiltern Railways will become the 10th rail company to be nationalised.

Anyone care to guess why cargo lingers longer if it goes by train than by truck?

For decades, the Class I carriers have cut crews, yards, locomotives and other capacity in the name of running leaner operations; when traffic surges, there is little spare railroad left to absorb it. Workers are then asked to do more with less, while shippers and the public are left waiting for the efficiencies they were promised.

Container delays by rail increase at busiest U.S. ports Growing delays for rail-bound boxes reflect continuing pressure on intermodal capacity.

Last week BNSF Railway, CPKC, and CSX — along with 11 short lines — told the Surface Transportation Board that they planned to seek widespread trackage rights and access to customers UP-NS, should the proposed merger gain regulatory approval.
Vena thinks that is just plain silly.

Union Pacific pans rival railroads’ trackage rights requests - Trains LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena is critical of rival railroads’ plans to request trackage rights over a combined UP-Norfolk Southern system. “The idea to give up tracks of your railroad for no reason at all just goes against the fundamental principle of how …. business shou...

Farmers- getting screwed everyway possible: $$$ Diesel prices for planting & harvesting, fertilizer shortages and $$$ through the roof, now shipping to market is costing them $$$, which ultimately will cost us- the consumers- more money.

US rail fuel surcharges on grain hit record highs, squeezing farmers in harvest season Railroad fuel surcharges on U.S. grain shipments have more than doubled over the past year, rippling through the ​farm belt and raising transportation costs as many farmers also struggle with higher production costs.

You know they are going to try to go completely autonomous. Imagine a Waymo freight train. 🙄

Opinion: When the train has no crew, who runs toward the problem? - Trains Trains Turntable: Commentary from locomotive engineer Jason Doering On Aug. 11, 2026, a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Railroad Administration’s two-person-crew rule, which generally requires two crew members while allowing exceptions and an approval process for certain one-person operat...