Business Wire

CN-KCS Voting Trust Receives Additional Support From Organized Labor, Including Four Local Union Letters From the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

The letters express support for CN and KCS’ voting trust from officers including the General Chairmen of BLET General Committees of Adjustment 360, 390 and 910, which collectively represent more than ...
Trains

Norfolk Southern tops 1,000 DC to AC conversions — and transforms its roster

Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington ...
The Spokesman-Review

Feds approve major railroad merger despite growing concerns over rail safety

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Federal regulators have approved the $31 billion merger of Kansas City Southern railroad with Canadian Pacific. The new railroad, to be named Canadian Pacific Kansas City, will ...
The Gazette

First major U.S. railroad merger in 2 decades will go forward

The first major railroad merger in more than two decades will go forward after federal regulators approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern. The two are the smallest ...
Daily Herald

'The plan is just not viable as of right now': Lawmakers wary of controversial railroad merger

Federal lawmakers have stayed on the sidelines regarding the regional impact of a white-hot proposal to combine two major freight railroads, but that's changing. "The plan is just not viable as of ...
Chicago Tribune

Elgin, other area towns, join forces to oppose proposed Canadian Pacific Railway/Kansas City Southern Railroad merger

Elgin and seven other municipalities have joined forces in an attempt to stop plans to merge the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Kansas City Southern Railroad, a move local officials say would ...