Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

Dec. 14 (Reuters) - BNSF Railway, one of the crown jewels of Warren Buffett’s sprawling Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, calls itself an environmental leader in the U.S. rail industry with the ...

*(CNN) — This Friday, tens of thousands of railroad workers are poised to go on strike, potentially bringing nearly a third of all US freight to a grinding halt. It would be the first national rail ...

Union Pacific operates the largest freight rail network in the US among listed peers, spanning the entire western region from the Pacific Coast to Chicago and the Mississippi River. Its 50,000 plus ...

The US economy can keep running without freight trains - but not for long. That is why the risk of the first national railroad strike in 30 years is so worrying to economists and businesses.A brief ...

BNSF accounts for a third of rail industry's NOx emissions Aging locomotives contribute to high pollution levels Rail industry resists adopting clean technologies due to cost concerns Dec. 14 (Reuters ...