US EditionUnion Pacific Kicks Off Regulatory Review for $85 Billion ...
- On Dec. 19, 2025 from Fort Worth, BNSF President & CEO Katie Farmer said BNSF is reviewing the STB filing and remains opposed to the proposed merger, with further comment coming soon.
- After Union Pacific filed an application with the Surface Transportation Board to review the merger plan, Canadian Pacific Kansas City warned it would `radically` change America's rail network and pose `extraordinary` risks.
- BNSF argued the deal would reduce competition and raise costs, saying it poses long-term harms that leave shippers with fewer options and citing past mergers’ service failures.
- Industry groups warned the merged carrier could handle some 40 per cent of American freight and would stitch together more than 80,000 kilometres of track across 43 states, potentially triggering further rail consolidation.
- With strengthened STB rules, BNSF Railway says partnerships and collaboration deliver streamlined service more effectively, and it contends Union Pacific has not met the new public-interest requirements.
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Rail workers warn that merger would yield injury and even death
It is no secret that irresponsible rail giants out for profits have visited injury and death on workers and massive destruction to communities around the country. Workers are warning that a new corporate monster railroads want to create via a merger would tear up critical health and safety measures that protect both workers and people in towns thorough which the trains pass. The monster rail monopolies created America’s Gilded Age. Now, the prop…
CN Statement on UP-NS STB Filing
MONTREAL, Dec. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The application filed this morning by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern fails to demonstrate that the merger would enhance competition or generate significant public benefits that would require a merger. It falls well…
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CPKC statement on UP-NS merger application filing
CALGARY, AB, Dec. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX: CP) (NYSE: CP) (CPKC) today released the following statement regarding the merger application filed by Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) with the Surface Transportation Board (STB)…
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