Two of the six six railways in the country can soon join the country, according to the published reports that Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern in merging talks to create the largest railway in North America and connect the eastern and western coasts in one network.
Union Pacific or Norfolk Southern had no comment on the report.
If this is completed, this merger will follow a major mixture of the main railway company in this sector, after the Canadian Pacific won in 2023 a bidding war to get Kansas City Soutering for $ 31 billion, and the establishment of a single company called CPKC, which runs a network from the north and south linking Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Such a deal will also follow months of the negative headlines of the Southern Norfolk, which was subjected to harsh criticism of dealing with toxic chemical splies after the train decreased near eastern Palestine, Ohio, in 2023.
The approval of the Mega-Merger of the federal organizers, including the American Surface Transport Board (STB).
