A Union Pacific executive said this week in a message to shippers that customers have felt a “real backlash” from BNSF Railway and CPKC after indicating support for the UP-Norfolk Southern merger.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BNSF CEO Katie Farmer, left, talks with Monica Freeman of CHS Inc. during a “fireside chat” at the Midwest Association of Rail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carrying J.B. Hunt containers, BNSF Railway’s first northbound intermodal train to use the Eagle Pass, Texas, gateway crosses the ...

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena clapped back at a recent contention from rival railroad BNSF Railway that the company would eliminate 300 intermodal lanes upon the approval of its takeover of Norfolk ...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BNSF President & CEO Katie Farmer issued the following statement on the UP merger application filing: “While we are still reviewing the STB filing and will have ...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BNSF Railway today announced the Class I railroad has filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), requesting the immediate review and enforcement ...

The freight rail executive urges Union Pacific Corp. to adopt the same position it took relative to an earlier merger in that sector. Interstate solid waste shippers and recyclers and traders of metal ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said today (Thursday, July 16) that she had sent a letter to federal regulators asking them to address her allegation that Union Pacific has threatened retaliation ...

A group of U.S. ports and terminal operators has raised concern about the pending $85 billion railroad merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, maintaining that it could degrade intermodal ...

Not a subscriber? Apply online today. Consolidation is hardly new in any industry. In the case of Class-1 railroads, however, it has been a profound trend almost from the outset. This level of ...

While a December 1 date for the merger application to be sent to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), regarding the historic proposed $85 billion merger between Class I railroads Union Pacific (UP) ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer still doesn't see further rail industry consolidation as inevitable if a Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger is approved. Just the fact that the ...