June 25, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following column by Frank Cagle appeared on the Metro Pulse website on June 24, 2009.) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knox County has spent millions of dollars on Eastbridge Industrial Park. It sits on Mine Road in Mascot with hundreds of acres of expensive graded land still...
June 22, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Beth Ann Walker appeared on the Knoxville News website on June 21, 2009.) NEW MARKET, Tenn. — Norfolk Southern isn’t interested in buying any of Debbie Berry’s 20 acres. Her property – which has been in her family for 70 years...
June 22, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 21, 2009.) NEW MARKET, Tenn. — More than 100 people gathered at an East Tennessee school to speak out against a proposed Norfolk Southern rail yard where freight would be exchanged between trucks and trains. The...
June 18, 2009 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, NS
(The following editorial appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on June 17, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. — Wick Moorman said he was speaking only for himself when he told Norfolk business leaders that higher-speed passenger rail must come to Hampton Roads by a southern route....
June 17, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Robert Wilson appeared on the Knoxville News Sentinel website on June 17, 2009.) DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Harvey Young said he searched for 35 years before he found the farm he wanted to buy and build his home on. But in 1999 he found it, and now if...
June 15, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Robert Wilson appeared on the Knoxville News Sentinel website on June 14, 2009.) NEW MARKET, Tenn. — New Market, in Jefferson County, could not be more appropriately named, say officials for Norfolk Southern Corp., the company that wants to...
June 12, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Alex McRae appeared on The Times-Herald website on June 12, 2009.) NEWNAN, Ga. — It’s been some 30 years since railroad cars rumbled eastward through Senoia toward Griffin — but before dawn Thursday, several freight cars that had...
June 12, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Michael Tomberlin appeared on the Birmingham News website on June 12, 2009.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Norfolk Southern is scouting sites in the Birmingham area to build a terminal as part of a rail corridor stretching from the Northeast to New...
June 10, 2009 | Headlines, NS, UP
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on June 9, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Norfolk Southern Railway executive said his company is exploring the potential to eventually electrify some freight rail lines in connection with...
June 4, 2009 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by William Kibler appeared on the Altoona Mirror website on June 3, 2009.) ALTOONA, Pa. — At the beginning of Wednesday’s railroad trip to Lewistown, a Norfolk Southern Railway official warned riders about little things: Hold on when walking...
