July 31, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Shawna Morrison appeared on the Roanoke Times website on July 30.) ROANOKE, Va. — Several cars of a coal train headed toward Norfolk derailed in Montgomery County on Tuesday night, a Norfolk Southern Corp. spokeswoman said. The derailment...
July 30, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 29.) Norfolk Southern Railway, North Carolina Railroad Co. (NCRR) and the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Rail Division are teaming up to upgrade 43 public grade crossings...
July 30, 2008 | Headlines, NS, Railroad Security
(Nice Systems issued the following on July 29.) NORFOLK, Va. — NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions to drive performance, today announced it has won a 7-digit follow-on...
July 29, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by P.J. Reilly and John Walk appeared on the Intelligencer Journal website on July 29.) HARRISBURG, Pa. — Twenty-three miles of the abandoned Enola Low-Grade Line in southern Lancaster County today are under municipal ownership. At a gathering in...
July 29, 2008 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 28.) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently determined a Norfolk Southern Railway derailment that occurred in New Brighton, Pa., in October 2006 was caused by an inadequate rail...
July 25, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story appeared on The Herald-Dispatch website on July 25.) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — WHAT IS IT? The Heartland Corridor project involves improvements in railways between the Virginia coast and Columbus, Ohio, so that trains can carry more goods. Twenty-eight...
July 24, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following column by Christopher Barker appeared on the Motley Fool website on July 23.) NEW YORK — Thankfully for many Midwesterners, the floodwaters that ravaged their homes and destroyed nearby crops last month receded about as quickly as they rose. While...
July 24, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Gregory Richards appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on July 24.) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp.’s trains may soon be hauling Volkswagens, as one of the Norfolk-based railroad’s main lines runs past the Chattanooga,...
July 24, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(Reuters circulated the following on July 23.) CHICAGO — Global demand for U.S. coal should remain strong “through 2010 and beyond,” the top executive of U.S. railroad Norfolk Southern Corp. said on Wednesday. “We have seen no indication that this...
July 23, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on July 22.) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern Corp., the fourth- largest U.S. railroad, said second-quarter profit rose 15 percent as increased demand for moving coal and agricultural products boosted...
