• Union Pacific is pursuing a combination with Norfolk Southern aimed at creating a coast-to-coast rail network and removing mid-continent interchanges that currently add time, cost, and risk to shipments.
• The companies exchange freight about 1 million times a year, sometimes involving a third railroad or truck transfers between yards.
• Union Pacific’s amended filing to the Surface Transportation Board estimates shippers would save about USD 3.5 billion a year, driven in part by shifting freight from trucks to rail.
• Industry estimates cited in the filing project the combined network could remove about 2.1 million trucks from US roads each year.

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