Norfolk Southern’s first-quarter earnings report Wednesday gave the railroad the opportunity to publicly defend CEO Alan Shaw’s strategy again before investors decide on May 9 whether to back him.

Norfolk Southern’s quarterly profits were again inflated by insurance payments related to its disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio, but even without that, the railroad’s profits grew.

The bar for railroad mergers in the U.S. was raised substantially at the start of the century after a disastrous combination of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in 1996 that snarled rail traffic ...

The bar for railroad mergers in the U.S. was raised substantially at the start of the century after a disastrous combination of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in 1996 that snarled rail traffic for ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts. The merger discussions ...

Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern discuss merger to create transcontinental railroad, AP source says by: JOSH FUNK, Associated Press Posted: Jul 17, 2025 / 05:43 PM PDT Updated: Jul 17, 2025 / 05:47 ...