While it is impossible to summarize the rail industry’s year in a single article, there were certain key stories and themes ...

In a merger application, the railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West ...

Canadian National Railway Company (CNI) issued a statement on Monday noting that the application filed with the Surface ...

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

The arc of Atlanta’s history and the path of its growth can be traced through the rail lines that forged it. Many of those tracks today are operated by Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern, a railroad with ...

CORRECTION: The on-air version of this story incorrectly identified one of the railroads merged to create Norfolk Southern. WAVY-TV regrets the error. NORFOLK, Va ...

Norfolk Southern is one of the major rail line owners in Alabama. Its routes include a line spanning nearly the entirety of the Tennessee Valley.

A new agreement between two railroad giants, Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, will create America’s first transcontinental railroad, to be called the Union Pacific ...

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 ...