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Segment Reporting (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2025
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Schedule of Cost and Expense |
| First Quarter |  |
| 2025 |  | 2024 |  |  |  |
| ($ in millions)
Railway operating revenues (Note 2) | $ | 2,993 |  |  | $ | 3,004 |  |  |  |  |
Railway operating expenses |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Compensation and benefits | 739 |  |  | 736 |  |  |  |  |
Purchased services | 401 |  |  | 420 |  |  |  |  |
Equipment rents | 97 |  |  | 108 |  |  |  |  |
Fuel | 244 |  |  | 284 |  |  |  |  |
Depreciation | 346 |  |  | 337 |  |  |  |  |
Materials | 100 |  |  | 98 |  |  |  |  |
Claims | 66 |  |  | 48 |  |  |  |  |
Other | 39 |  |  | 69 |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring and other charges | — |  |  | 99 |  |  |  |  |
Eastern Ohio incident | (185) |  |  | 592 |  |  |  |  |
Total railway operating expenses | 1,847 |  |  | 2,791 |  |  |  |  |
Income from railway operations | 1,146 |  |  | 213 |  |  |  |  |
Other income – net | 31 |  |  | 18 |  |  |  |  |
Interest expense on debt | 199 |  |  | 201 |  |  |  |  |
Income before income taxes | 978 |  |  | 30 |  |  |  |  |
Income taxes | 228 |  |  | (23) |  |  |  |  |
Net income | $ | 750 |  |  | $ | 53 |  |  |  |  |

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