WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE: The proposed marriage of Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) to form the first U.S. seamless Atlantic to Pacific transcontinental railroad is a mesmerizing drama intensified by two forceful personalities.
Robert Primus, who was removed from his position on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Aug. 27, in a move that Democracy Forward and Justice Legal Strategies, which are representing Primus, say,
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 30 issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that it said would “streamline and improve reporting requirements for Class I rail carriers, proposing to eliminate the now-unnecessary supplemental reporting of Positive Train Control (PTC) expenditures and proposing to require the reporting of two critical metrics for the Board’s objective to ensure rail service reliability.”
Union Pacific (UP) racks up strong performance numbers for its grain customers. Also, BNSF encourages stakeholders to share their views with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) regarding the proposed merger between Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS).
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is inviting public comment on its schedule for reviewing the proposed merger of Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS), which would create the first U.S. transcontinental
The debut in late August 2025 of Amtrak’s long-awaited NextGen Acela trainsets for the Northeast Corridor captured media and rail industry attention at a time when Amtrak’s much larger—geographically speaking—Long-Distance (LD) network
Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Patrick Fuchs on Sept. 22 provided an update on recent actions to “facilitate and expedite the resolution of several outstanding Board proceedings.”
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted for fourth-quarter 2025 the rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF), which is defined as “an index formulated to represent changes in railroad costs incurred by the nation’s largest railroads over a specified period of time.”
POTUS 47 has nominated Republican Richard Kloster to fill a vacant seat at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) and renominated Republican Michelle A. Schultz to a second term. The Sept. 11 nominations
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 2 granted Metra’s application for terminal trackage rights to continue commuter rail service over three lines in the Chicago metropolitan area owned by host freight railroad Union Pacific, and it denied UP’s motion to dismiss that application.