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Omaha Steve

(106,757 posts)
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:13 AM Jul 29

Union Pacific and Norfolk seek 1st transcontinental railroad through a massive merger

Source: AP

By JOSH FUNK
Updated 9:08 AM CDT, July 29, 2025

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the country.

The proposed merger, announced Tuesday, would marry Union Pacific’s vast rail network in the West with Norfolk’s rails that snake across 22 Eastern states, and the District of Columbia.

The nation was first linked by rail in 1869, when a golden railroad spike was driven in Utah to symbolize the connection of East and West Coasts. Yet no single entity has controlled that coast-to-coast passage.

The railroads argue a merger would streamline deliveries of raw materials and goods nationwide by eliminating delays when shipments are handed off between railroads. The AP first reported the merger talks earlier this month a week before the railroads confirmed the discussions last week.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/union-pacific-norfolk-southern-transcontinental-railroad-merger-b15664ec5cc55b985a0a32a1bf990d41

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Union Pacific and Norfolk seek 1st transcontinental railroad through a massive merger (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 29 OP
Bust the Trust. multigraincracker Jul 29 #1
A monopoly over freight car moniss Jul 29 #2
Monopolies in other industries are sometimes regulated bucolic_frolic Jul 29 #3
i was wonderiing why therer were so many up trains with ns and up locos . AllaN01Bear Jul 29 #4
I always thought they would go for CSXT. Gore1FL Jul 29 #5

bucolic_frolic

(52,013 posts)
3. Monopolies in other industries are sometimes regulated
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jul 29

Like the old Ma Bell. Remove the regulation and you have prices through the roof. Extend or grant the monopoly and it's even worse.

But of course we don't regulate anything anymore.

Gore1FL

(22,578 posts)
5. I always thought they would go for CSXT.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 06:59 PM
Jul 29

I assume BNSF will make an offer to drive the price up.

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