Union Pacific (UP) joins Ag Processing Inc. to celebrate the grand opening of its newest soybean processing and degumming facility in Nebraska. Also, Madisonville Industrial Park II is Kentucky’s first Silver Level CSX Select Site.
The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) on March 14 released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Green Eagle Railroad’s (GER) proposed construction and operation of an approximately 1.335-mile rail line in Maverick County, Tex., extending from the southern border of the United States and connecting to Union Pacific (UP) at approximately milepost 31 on the Eagle Pass Subdivision. The Final EIS was released Aug. 6.
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Union Pacific’s (UP) Denver, Colo., equipment shop rebuilds its 100th tamper. Also, CSX and Florida State College at Jacksonville hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a hazardous materials training facility, and the railroad’s Southeast Region Communications & Signals team marks a milestone.
The Women in Rail 2025 Conference, presented by Railway Age and RT&S, will feature a dynamic panel of industry mentors, who will help you build your “leadership toolkit.” They will provide winning
An internship with Union Pacific Railroad wasn’t something I initially saw coming – but looking back, the path that led me here feels meant to be.
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on July 30 confirmed that it has received a notice of intent regarding a proposed merger that would result in the combination of Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS). This notice, required under the Board’s merger regulations at 49 C.F.R. Part 1180, “initiates the regulatory review process for a proposed major merger between two Class I railroads.”
The Union Pacific+Norfolk Southern merger terms were largely as expected. NS can walk away from UP for an unsolicited better offer ($11/share break fee), but a BNSF-CSX combination is more likely than a Berkshire Hathaway bidding war with UP. The regulatory timeline to 1H27 was also expected, but lack of a voting trust and the right to walk if STB imposes certain conditions favor UP.
If you think federal regulatory agencies—even federally owned Amtrak—have strayed from what former Southern Railway and Conrail CEO L. Stanley Crane termed, “stick to your knitting,” you’re not ridin’ the rails solo.
TexAmericas Center, which owns and operates the third ranked mixed-use industrial park in the U.S., announced July 29 that COIM USA, a specialty chemical manufacturer and part of the global COIM Group,