The Union Pacific Railroad has signed an...

The Union Pacific Railroad has signed an agreement with the Kansas City Southern Railway as required by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the UP and Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad merger approval. UP said the agreement allows KCS haulage rights between Omaha and Kansas City and the right to move grain on UP tracks between Beaumont, Houston and Galveston in Texas. The ICC required UP to arrange for a competing carrier in the Omaha-Kansas City corridor to replace MKT, or Katy, with trackage rights in that market from the 1982 merger between Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads.