The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states. By Peter Eavis Union Pacific, a freight rail giant, announced on Tuesday that it had ...

(Reuters) -Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S. coast-to-coast freight rail operator and reshape the movement of ...

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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.