---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-283950"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NSC"
cik: "0000702165"
company_name: "NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T19:30:39.811852+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Norfolk Southern shareholders approve merger with Union Pacific; ~99% vote FOR

## Summary
- Shareholders voted 162.2M FOR, 2.4M AGAINST, 310k abstain — ~98.6% of votes cast in favor.
- Per share consideration: 1.0 Union Pacific share plus $88.82 cash.
- Transaction expected to close by early 2027, subject to Surface Transportation Board approval.
- CEO Mark George cites creation of first coast-to-coast transcontinental railroad.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation also passed (152.7M FOR).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-283950
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NSC
- cik: 0000702165
- company_name: NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000119312525283950/0001193125-25-283950-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000119312525283950/d30760d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-283950.txt

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