STB

The Surface Transportation Board announced a series of data modernization steps aimed at improving rail service reporting, expanding public access to agency data and eliminating reporting requirements it no longer considers necessary.

CN said it continues to review Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s amended merger application submitted to the Surface Transportation Board and will remain actively engaged in this process.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are back at the Surface Transportation Board with an amended merger application, again pitching their tie-up as the deal that will create America’s first “transcontinental” railroad — and insisting the revised filing is even more airtight than the first.