WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Union Pacific's proposed purchase of smaller rival rail operator Norfolk Southern will need to be ...

More than two and a half years after Amtrak called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to initiate an investigation ...

If you think federal regulatory agencies—even federally owned Amtrak—have strayed from what former Southern Railway and ...

Amtrak and Union Pacific have reached a settlement in their dispute over performance of the Sunset Limited and have asked the Surface Transportation Board to end its investigation into the train’s ...

Republican Patrick J. Fuchs on Monday was designated by President Donald Trump as chairman of the five-member Surface Transportation Board. The 36-year-old Fuchs succeeds Democrat Robert E. Primus ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday criticized Union Pacific's plan ...

The $85 billion agreement is expected to take years to be completed, a process that includes an application with the Surface ...

The Rail Passengers Association said today it will be “actively involved in protecting the rights of passengers” as the Union ...

The Surface Transportation Board is seeking comments from shippers, carriers, and others on first-mile/last-mile (FMLM) service, which occurs when railcars are moved between a local railroad ...

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is one step closer to doubling the number of members who sit on the Surface Transportation Board. The committee convened a hearing ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2015 – Key farm and industry stakeholders applauded the House’s Thursday passage of a bill to reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board (STB) – the federal railroad ...

The federal Surface Transportation Board has granted final approval for an 85-mile rail line that backers say is needed to connect the Uinta Basin’s oil production to markets outside of Utah.