Railroads are the quiet workhorses of our economy — moving the goods that keep manufacturers humming, farmers exporting, and small businesses stocked. They invest billions in infrastructure without ...

I’m a conservative and a believer in free markets — always have been. But free markets don’t mean anything goes. They mean competition where hard work, innovation, and good service win out. When two ...

Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern have filed an historic application to create the nation's first transcontinental ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Las Vegas found itself growing out of luck and good circumstances. Union Pacific finished construction of its new Los Angeles to Salt Lake City route in 1905. The halfway point ...

America’s shipping landscape stands on the brink of a dramatic transformation as two railroad giants announced a groundbreaking merger that could fundamentally change how goods move across the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

For all our differences, Americans are remarkably united on one key point. Partisan Democrats and Republicans, business and labor leaders, and just about all the folks sitting in think tanks or on ...

American railroading began in the Capital District. On December 28, 1825, Schenectady County native (Duanesburg) George Featherstonhaugh (pronounced fen-shaw) ran a newspaper notice announcing the ...