May 16, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 13, 2022) NEW YORK — The witness phase of the slugout between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS) and the Port of Mobile on the other, ended May 12 as its 11th day concluded. It ended not with T.S. Eliot’s oft-quoted “whimper”...
May 13, 2022 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Virginian-Pilot, May 13, 2022) NORFOLK, Va. — A federal jury awarded a UPS driver $300,000 on Thursday for injuries he sustained in a 2019 loading incident caused by a negligent Norfolk Southern Railway employee. The incident, he claimed, nearly crushed him...
May 12, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine analysis by Bob Johnston, May 11, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cross-examination of Jim Blair, Amtrak’s senior director of host railroads, consumed the full 8-hour, 28-minute session Monday as the Surface Transportation Board’s hearing on the...
May 10, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, May 6, 2022) NEW YORK — On May 5—a little more than a week after its April 26-27 “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” hearing—the Surface Transportation Board, voting unanimously, has issued updated, more-comprehensive rules for reporting...
May 10, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Grist, May 5, 2022) Ever since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Deep South in 2005, shredding the region’s railways, it’s been impossible to take a train heading east from New Orleans to the rest of the Gulf Coast. For years, Amtrak has been trying to...
May 4, 2022 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 2, 2022) ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern President Alan Shaw spent his first two days as CEO visiting railroaders across the system and vowing to restore service to normal levels. Full story: Trains Magazine
May 3, 2022 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 2, 2022) Alan Shaw yesterday began his first day as Norfolk Southern Railway’s new president and CEO. Full story: Progressive Railroading
April 29, 2022 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board investigation, April 28, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On February 7, 2019, about 7:00 a.m. local time, a Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad conductor was fatally injured while performing switching operations at the...
April 28, 2022 | Headlines, NS, PSR, Quarterly Income
(Source: Railway Age, April 27, 2022) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern on April 27 released a first-quarter 2022 operating metrics report card: crew starts were down 5% from the prior-year period; active locomotives were up 1%; train weight and length were up 5% and 4%,...
April 28, 2022 | Headlines, NS, PSR, Quarterly Income
(Source: Freight Waves, April 27, 2022) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Norfolk Southern is preparing to launch the next stage of its streamlined operational plan, with improving intermodal and bulk moves being the target, executives said during the company’s first-quarter...
