CN urging STB to reject amended Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern application

CN (CNI) filed comments with the Surface Transportation Board that it says demonstrate that the amended merger application submitted by Union Pacific (UNP) and Norfolk Southern (NSC) “still fails to meet the Board’s requirements and thus remains incomplete.” CN, which is urging the Board to reject the amended application, states: “CN’s filing shows that the amended application continues to omit required information regulators and stakeholders need to meaningfully assess the competitive and operational impacts of this major proposed merger. Of the three independent deficiencies the Board identified in rejecting Applicants’ first application in January 2026, the amended application meaningfully addresses only one – providing the complete Merger Agreement – while failing to remedy the other two. Applicants still have not offered meaningful competitive enhancements, falling far short of the STB’s higher burden for Class I mergers to enhance competition and meet the public interest standard.”