Union Pacific in the news again over the Norfolk Southern merger talks ($85B). Big rail player since 1862; CEO: Lance Fritz.
Rail workers have found six people dead inside a Union Pacific boxcar at a train yard in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday afternoon. Laredo police have confirmed six fatalities — five men and one woman — and have said autopsies will be done; authorities have not released identities or a cause of death. An investigation is ongoing.