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Train Stocks Could Fare Well as Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merge. Picking Winners.

When Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced their merger deal Tuesday to form “America’s first transcontinental ...

Union Pacific: Norfolk Purchase Brings Long-Term Benefits, Near-Term Uncertainty

Union Pacific's $320/share bid for Norfolk Southern aims to form the first transcontinental railroad. Read the full analysis ...

Citing lives at risk, train workers urge Union Pacific to allow trail to stunning waterfall

A train workers union this week called on Union Pacific to help facilitate a long-sought trail to Mossbrae Falls, near ...

Nebraska leaders praise Union Pacific merger to create coast-to-coast rail system based in Omaha

Omaha-based Union Pacific Railroad’s announcement Tuesday that it is acquiring the Norfolk Southern Railway — a move that ...

Union Pacific’s CEO started as a teen track worker—now he’s leading an $130 billion empire and says Gen Z interns need curiosity to be like him

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena has climbed the railroad ranks since he was a teenager making mere dollars to maintain tracks to ...