August 4, 2025 - TRA Newswire - The announcement that Union Pacific will purchase east-coast Class 1 Norfolk Southern for $85 billion and create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad has large intermodal shippers in Texas and nationwide rethinking who their carrier...
July 22, 2025 - TRA Commentary -Except for some consolidation in the short line railroad arena and Canadian Pacific Railway-Kansas City Southern morphing into CPKC in April 2023, merger talks between Class 1's had been deathly silent. Until recently, that is.Last...
May 7, 2023 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific is not happy with the recent Surface Transportation Board decision that allowed the merger of Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) into the new CPKC. UP has filed suit in...
October 25, 2022 - Trains.com -Union Pacific said that a video of a KCS train "breezing through Houston" misled federal regulators about Houston terminal operations.The railroads played the video, shot from the lead locomotive, for the Surface Transportation Board on...
October 6, 2022 - Trains.com -WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern made closing arguments for their proposed merger on Thursday, telling regulators that their combination was in the public interest and that critics either didn’t do their homework...
March 21, 2021 - TRA Newswire -
In an historic announcement today, Kansas City Southern (KCS) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) agreed to merge both railroads, which would make it the first North American railroad to serve three countries. (See map...
