In “The Tempest,” Shakespeare wrote, “what’s past is prologue,” meaning history sets the context for the present and dictates future events. Except, apparently, when it comes to transcontinental ...

The nation’s largest rail labor union urged members of Congress to support a proposed $85 billion merger between Union ...

A Union Pacific freight train came off the rails at the Cantara Loop near Dunsmuir on Sunday night, sending about 19 cars off the track and backing up traffic through the Upper Sacramento River canyon ...

Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) intend to merge, which would give them control of nearly half of the nation’s freight market and fundamentally reshaping the national rail network.

Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) and Norfolk Southern have delayed filing a revised merger application after a regulatory request.

OMAHA, Neb. — The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two unions that represent more than half their workers over concerns it will ...

Norfolk Southern’s proposed merger with Union Pacific would eliminate the Atlanta brand. But it won’t leave Midtown, CEO says.

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Imagine if airlines couldn’t fly nonstop between the East and West coasts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Union Pacific cargo train is shown at crossing near Jamestown (Tuolumne County) in 2017. A person was fatally struck by a Union ...