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Freight Class I MSU professor: UP-NS merger can’t turn back the clock on carload decline

MSU professor: UP-NS merger can’t turn back the clock on carload decline

By | October 28, 2025

Jason Miller says a transcontinental Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern system may streamline service and boost efficiency — but long-term structural shifts in freight demand, not railroad strategy, will determine whether intermodal growth follows

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