August 24, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(Bloomberg News circulated the following on August 23, 2010.) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern Corp. sold $250 million of 100-year bonds in a reopening, the first offering of such debt since 2005, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The securities yield 5.95 percent,...
August 23, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on August 19, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Norfolk Southern Railway completed in and around Front Royal, Va., a series of state- and company-funded construction projects, which will boost...
August 20, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 19, 2010.) AUSTELL, Ga. — Representatives of Norfolk Southern Railway and Georgia Operation Lifesaver took a train ride together to promote safety. About 100 local, state and federal officials made a roundtrip...
August 20, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by David Patch appeared on the Toledo Blade website on August 20, 2010.) TOLEDO, Ohio — Seventeen-year-old Franco Harris and his cousin, Jason Abranczyk, 11, thought the railroad tracks behind a friend’s house in East Toledo would be a good...
August 20, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(Norfolk Southern circulated the following on August 19, 2010.) RICHMOND, Va. — A critical choke point on Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor has been eliminated with a reconfigured rail junction near Front Royal, Va. This was the final and most complex of six...
August 19, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Terrence T. McDonald appeared on The Montclair Times website on August 18, 2010.) BERGEN, N.J. — A Bloomfield Township consultant appeared before Montclair’s Township Council last night, asking its members to join an effort to create an...
August 19, 2010 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(The following story by Schuyler Kropf appeared on The Post and Courier website on August 19, 2010.) COLUMBIA, S.C. — North Charleston officials met with leaders of the state Department of Commerce on Wednesday for a briefing on the city’s rail rerouting plan...
August 17, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 16, 2010.) Work is nearing completion on Norfolk Southern Railway’s Heartland Corridor and NS officials expect to begin operating double-stack trains on the 1,200-mile intermodal route next...
August 16, 2010 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Julia Hunter appeared on the Press & Sun-Bulletin website on August 14, 2010.) BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — When Norfolk Southern Railroad failed to alert local officials after a June 2 derailment, they didn’t just upset emergency workers...
August 13, 2010 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(The following story by Schuyler Kropf appeared on The Post and Courier website on August 12, 2010.) CHARLESTON, S.C. — North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey next week will talk to the Department of Commerce for the first time in months about rail issues in the city...