In a merger application, the railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side.

Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile colossus that could offer seamless service from coast to coast, bypassing ...

Anyone attending the Durham Museum south of Omaha’s Old Market will be near the one-mile marker for the Union Pacific Railroad and could easily assume Omaha was the eastern terminus of the ...