🚆Union Pacific & Norfolk Southern Merger Proposal
The Surface Transportation Board (Board) invites public comments on a proposed procedural schedule for this proceeding. On July 30, 2025, Union Pacific Corporation (UPC) and Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) (collectively, Union Pacific) and Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) (collectively, Norfolk Southern) (Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern collectively, Applicants) filed a notice of intent to file an application seeking authority for the acquisition of control by UPC, through its wholly owned subsidiary Ruby Merger Sub 1 Corporation, of NSC and, through it, NS, and for the resulting common control by UPC of UP and NS.
Learn More🚌TBL Group's Acquisition of BTM Coaches Tentatively Approved
TBL Group, Inc. (TBL Group), a holding company that owns multiple interstate motor passenger carriers, has filed an application for Board approval of its acquisition of an additional federally regulated motor passenger carrier, BTM Coaches, Inc. (BTM Coaches). The Board is tentatively approving and authorizing the transaction. If no opposing comments are timely filed, this notice will be the final Board action.
Learn More🚂GAR Takes Over Operations for Georgiana & Andalusia Railroad
Georgiana & Andalusia Railroad, LLC is set to replace Three Notch Railway, L.L.C. as the operator on two rail lines in southern Alabama. The transaction includes the purchase of track and rail-related improvements, lease assumptions, and the agreement with involved parties. The changes aim to ensure continuous rail service and compliance with regulatory obligations.
Learn More🚆Surface Transportation Board Approves 2025 Rail Cost Adjustment Factor
The Surface Transportation Board has adopted the fourth quarter 2025 Rail Cost Adjustment Factor and cost index filed by the Association of American Railroads.
Learn More🚂Sunrise Industrial Rail Exemption for Lease and Operator Change
Sunrise Industrial Rail, LLC has filed a verified notice for an exemption to lease and operate rail lines owned by Brookhaven Logistics Center, LLC in Suffolk County, N.Y. This transaction includes a replacement of the current operator, Brookhaven Rail, and poses implications for rail transportation and service continuity along the designated track.
Learn More🚚2025 Fee Updates from the Surface Transportation Board
The Board updates for 2025 the fees that the public must pay to file certain cases and pleadings with the Board. Pursuant to this update, 60 of the Board's 135 fees will increase, two will decrease, and 73 fees will remain at their current levels.
Learn More🚂Notice of Passenger Rail Advisory Committee Meeting Analysis
Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Passenger Rail Advisory Committee (PRAC), pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
Learn More🚆2024 Railroad Revenue Adequacy Determinations & Business Impact
On August 20, 2025, the Board served a decision announcing the 2024 revenue adequacy determinations for the nation's Class I railroads. Two Class I railroads (CSX Transportation, Inc., and Union Pacific Railroad Company) were found to be revenue adequate.
Learn More🚆Permission Request for Waybill Data by St. Louis Freightway
The Surface Transportation Board has received a request from Bi-State Development to access specific waybill data for the St. Louis region, aiming to analyze railroad traffic trends. The data request involves confidentiality considerations and requires any objections to be filed within 14 days.
Learn More🚍Tentative Approval for Trivest Acquisition of Cline Companies
Trivest Fund VII, L.P. (Trivest) and its subsidiary, Passenger Transport Holdings, L.P. (PTH) (collectively, Applicants), both noncarriers, filed an application seeking authority to acquire control of Cline Tours, Inc. (Cline), a passenger motor carrier, and Cline's passenger motor carrier subsidiaries, Bus Supply Charters, Inc. (BSCI) and Crown Coach Corporation (Crown) (collectively, the Cline Companies). Cline also seeks after-the-fact authority for its prior acquisition of BSCI and Crown. The Board is tentatively approving and authorizing these transactions. If no opposing comments are timely filed, this notice will be the final Board action.
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