George and his counterpart at Union Pacific, Jim Vena, who plans to stay on as CEO of the unified company, point out that the way railroads operate in the U.S. today, where eastern railroads hand off ...

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.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) announced Wednesday it had awarded $20 million in grants through the ...

Voltify, a start-up, has a bold ambition to convince U.S. Class 1 railroad companies to switch to battery-electric power. Powering locomotives using batteries rather than diesel would save U.S. rail ...

In an effort to strengthen the long-term reliability of Connecticut’s freight rail network, the Connecticut Department of ...

Three years after the East Palestine derailment, the Railway Safety Act of 2025 remains under consideration and may become a part of the reauthorization.

Among the hundreds of bills passed by the state Legislature this session was one sponsored by freshman Sen. Adrian Cortes, D-Battle Ground, repealing a 2017 law allowing Clark County to designate a po ...