March 9, 2011 | Headlines, NS, STB
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 8, 2011.) Watco Cos. L.L.C. recently filed a notice of exemption with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to lease about 43.6 miles of lines from Norfolk Southern Railway between Maplesville...
February 23, 2011 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on February 22, 2011.) Norfolk Southern Railway is ordering 1,500 high-capacity coal hauling railcars from FreightCar America, in an order valued at more than $100 million. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who...
February 22, 2011 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Roanoke Times website on February 22, 2011.) RICHMOND, Va. — FreightCar America Inc. will produce 3,000 rail cars at its Roanoke manufacturing plant under a contract with Norfolk Southern Railway Co., putting more than 200 people to work...
February 14, 2011 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Commonwealth Journal website on February 22, 2011.) SOMERSET, Ky. — According to a report in the Commonwealth Journal, the crew change station is an impressive facility that promises to be an economic boom for Pulaski County. It will be...
February 10, 2011 | Accident, Headlines, NS
Trains have again started moving past the spot in Hancock County’s Cass Township where a Norfolk Southern ethanol train derailed and burned early Sunday, but a railroad spokesman said cleanup is likely to take weeks to complete. Damaged track was repaired with...
February 8, 2011 | Accident, Headlines, NS
Norfolk Southern expected to rebuild its track Tuesday after clearing the last wreckage from a site where 26 cars in an ethanol train derailed and burned in northeast Hancock County west of Arcadia, Ohio. An investigation continues into why the train, en route from...
February 7, 2011 | Headlines, NS
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. — A $713 parking ticket is a lot for anyone – even the railroad. Norfolk Southern has been racking up those tickets for blocking traffic through Port Wentworth. Police Chief James Melvin says his officers are writing them at a rate of about...
February 7, 2011 | Headlines, NS
About 30 residences near a Norfolk Southern rail line were evacuated early Sunday after a train derailed and some of its cars carrying ethanol exploded in Arcadia, Ohio. No injuries were reported when 26 cars derailed from the 62-car eastbound train at 2:20 a.m. near...
February 4, 2011 | CSX, Headlines, NS
Norfolk Southern and CSX Corp. said coal shipments are delayed by 48 hours because of bad weather in the U.S. Midwest. The two railroads, which move coal throughout the East, Midwest and Appalachia, are experiencing delays following a giant winter storm that slammed...
February 3, 2011 | Headlines, NS
(Norfolk Southern issued the following press release on February 2, 2011.) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corporation participated in the location of 67 new industries and the expansion of 28 existing industries along its rail lines in 2010. New plants and expansions...
