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United states, transcontinental rail going:
Lucky Luke lovers. especially the album Rails on the meadowremember it: on May 10, 1869, at a place called Promontory Summit (Utah), was planted, with a silver mallet, the golden nail completing the construction of the railway from the west of Sacramento (California) to Omaha (Nebraska), on the shores of Missouri. The transcontinental was built, after seven years of work.
At the time, two companies were shared rail traffic: the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific. It is soon to be over. For the first time in American history, only one railway company should connect the East Coast to the Pacific coast. Union Pacific, which has a huge network west of Mississippi and Chicago and is worth $ 167 billion (144.5 billion euros) on the stock market. proposed, Tuesday, July 29, to buy Norfolk Southern, which operates in the united states, transcontinental rail going east of the country, for an amount of $ 85 billion. The two united companies have 80,000 kilometers of tracks through 43 federated states, linked to a hundred ports. It would be the greatest acquisition ever operated in the sector. The initiative arouses questions.
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united states. transcontinental rail going — United states, transcontinental rail going: The director general of the Union Pacific, Jim Vena, and the director general of Norfolk Southern, Mark George, in Omaha (Nebraska), on July 28, 2025. BILL SITZMANN/UNION PACIFIC VIA AP Luc.
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