Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the ...

Union Pacific the largest U.S. railroad operator, said on Thursday it is in advanced talks with rival Norfolk Southern, signaling that a deal to form a $200 billion coast-to-coast rail company could ...

Union Pacific currently has a market value of about $140 billion, while Norfolk Southern is valued at around $60 billion. Following news of the negotiations, shares of Norfolk Southern rose by 4% in ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern confirmed that they are in “advanced” merger talks that would create a single U.S railroad with service stretching from the East to the West Coast. The Associated ...

The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states. By Peter Eavis Union Pacific, a freight rail giant, announced on Tuesday that it had ...