{"id":11792,"date":"2025-07-29T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/union-pacific-norfolk-to-merge-create-americas-first-coast-to-coast-railroad-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:21:29","slug":"union-pacific-norfolk-to-merge-create-americas-first-coast-to-coast-railroad-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/union-pacific-norfolk-to-merge-create-americas-first-coast-to-coast-railroad-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific, Norfolk to merge, create America&#8217;s first coast-to-coast railroad: What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed merger on Tuesday of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would create the first coast-to-coast railroad in the United States that would be controlled by a single entity. The deal, valued at $85 billion, plans to connect 50,000 miles of tracks spanning across 43 states and the District of Columbia&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5425538-union-pacific-norfolk-southern-merger\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed merger on Tuesday of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would create the first coast-to-coast railroad in the United States that would be controlled by a single entity. The deal, valued at $85 billion, plans to connect 50,000 miles of tracks spanning across 43 states and the District of Columbia&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}