Union Pacific's proposed purchase of smaller rival rail operator Norfolk Southern will need to be approved by the Surface ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern plan to file their merger application with the Surface Transportation Board ...

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

July 10, 2025 Regulatory STB: Nominations Welcome for RSTAC, RETAC The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory ...

As expected, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern on Wednesday submitted a pre-filing with the Surface Transportation Board ...

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

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 ...

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 Surface Transportation Board [http://www.stb.dot.gov]of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of ...

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.