October 7, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following editorial appeared on the Charleston Daily Mail website on October 7, 2009.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Americans have read a lot of negative news in the past few years about the economy of the nation they love. It would be easy to become discouraged and...
October 6, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Steve Bennish appeared on the Dayton Daily News website on October 5, 2009.) MIAMI TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Mischief-makers set a stack of 75 railroad ties on fire about 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, police said, shutting down a rail line just south of the...
October 6, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Eric Anderson appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on October 6, 2009.) STILLWATER, N.Y. — With the Halfmoon Planning Board giving its approval last week to a proposed $40 million intermodal yard, opponents of the project are looking to...
October 6, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by George Hohmann appeared on the Charleston Daily Mail website on October 5, 2009.) KERMIT, W.Va. — Opening a new rail gateway for double-stacked containers is taking place across southern West Virginia 20 grueling feet at a time. Every weekday,...
October 5, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Priyanka Dayal appeared on the Telegram & Gazette website on October 2, 2009.) AYER, Mass. — Prisco R. Morella expects a delivery every day. On Wednesday, it came at 1:45 in the afternoon — 126,000 gallons of vegetable oil. A freight train...
October 5, 2009 | Headlines, NS
The following story by Robert McCabe appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on October 5, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. — Railroad geeks will get a charge out of this. Norfolk Southern Corp. unveiled a prototype of a 1,500-horsepower switching locomotive last week that relies...
October 2, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Wes Bunch appeared on the Kingsport Times-News website on October 2, 2009.) DUFFIELD, Tenn. — A Norfolk Southern train traveling through the Duffield area spilled what could be up to 100 tons of coal Thursday along a seven-mile stretch of...
October 2, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(Norfolk Southern issued the following on October 1, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) will present its third-quarter 2009 earnings on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, at 4:30 p.m. EDT via teleconference and live Internet webcast. The company will...
September 29, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(Norfolk Southern issued the following on September 28, 2009.) ALTOONA, Pa. — With U.S. Dept. of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Congressman Bill Shuster in attendance, Norfolk Southern today unveiled the latest in alternative energy locomotive technology at...
September 23, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Cynthia M. Ellis appeared on The Alton Telegraph on September 22, 2009.) GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Crews spent the majority of Tuesday cleaning up the tangle of cars from a train derailment. Officials said that no one was injured when six cars of a...
