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  • [ December 20, 2025 ] CN: Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Merger Filing Fails to Show How it Would ‘Enhance Competition’ Canadian National
  • [ December 20, 2025 ] BNSF Unimpressed With Initial Review of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern STB filing BNSF
  • [ December 19, 2025 ] Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern File STB Merger Application Norfolk Southern
  • [ December 19, 2025 ] Union Pacific Railroad Plans to Develop the Mainline Texas Industrial Park Union Pacific
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CN: Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Merger Filing Fails to Show How it Would ‘Enhance Competition’

December 20, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire
CN said the application that Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern filed with the STB on Friday “fails to demonstrate that the merger would enhance competition or generate significant public benefits that would require a merger.”

BNSF

BNSF Unimpressed With Initial Review of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern STB filing

December 20, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire
BNSF President & CEO Katie Farmer said that while the company is reviewing the STB filing submitted by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern on Friday, it will have more to say.

Norfolk Southern

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern File STB Merger Application

December 19, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire
Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation today filed an application with the Surface Transportation Board requesting approval to combine the two railroads.

CSX

CSX Plans to Discontinue Service on the Baldwinsville Subdivision in Central New York

December 15, 2025 The Turntable
CSX Transportation wants federal approval to discontinue common-carrier service along a more than 11.1-mile section of tracks in Oswego and Onondaga counties, New York.

Short Line/Regional

Railroads Seek to End Service on 2.2 Miles of Track in Columbus, Georgia

December 15, 2025 The Turntable
The South Carolina Central Railroad and Georgia Southwestern Railroad have asked federal regulators to approve the abandonment and discontinuance of service on nearly 2.2 miles of rail in Muscogee County, citing the lack of freight traffic since 2016.

Short Line/Regional

Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Wants Trackage Rights Over Cedar River Railroad

December 12, 2025 The Turntable
The Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad has asked federal regulators to approve limited local trackage rights over a 43.5-mile segment of the Cedar River Railroad, from milepost 41.5 at Charles City, Iowa, to milepost 85.0 in London Township, Minnesota.

Short Line/Regional

STB Grants Fortress Exemption to Control Wheeling & Lake Erie, Akron Barberton Cluster

December 2, 2025 The Turntable
The Surface Transportation Board has granted Fortress Investment Group an exemption to assume control of The Wheeling Corporation and its rail subsidiaries, the Class II Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway and Class III Akron Barberton Cluster Railway.

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BNSF

BNSF Files Petition Requesting STB to Enforce, Review Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Merger Conditions

December 2, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire
BNSF Railway has filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board, requesting the immediate review and enforcement of conditions imposed during the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger nearly 30 years ago.

STB

Report: Rail Regulation Should Align with the Law and Economic Reality Following Supreme Court Decision

November 6, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire
The regulatory framework for freight rail must be updated to reflect both the current competitive landscape and the legal consequences of a 2024 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the International Center for Law & Economics said in a new report.

Norfolk Southern

Union Pacific and SMART-TD Reach Deal Tied to Proposed Norfolk Southern merger

September 24, 2025 The Turntable
The nation’s largest railroad and its largest rail union announced an unprecedented agreement that both sides said guarantees job security for thousands of workers as Union Pacific pursues a merger with Norfolk Southern.

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