RAIL MERGER APPROVED, WHEAT SHIPPERS OBJECT.

Besides releasing its decision, STB chairman Martin Oberman announced it in a press conference - the first-ever by the normally little-noticed STB - that has sole authority from Congress to approve, disapprove and regulate rail mergers. End-to-end was central The fact that the merger was "end-to-end" - that is, the two railroads had no overlapping routes - was a "central fact" of the merger approval, said Oberman. [Extracted from the article]