April 15, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Port Clinton News Herald website on April 14.) DANBURY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Two months after a train derailed and dumped cargo containers into the Sandusky Bay, Norfolk Southern started pulling the pieces out today. Norfolk Southern...
April 11, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Richard Walker appeared on the Times and Democrat website on April 11.) ORANGEBURG, S.C. — A compact car, a silver one, speeds across the train track beside Magnolia Street. A white one does the same. In the background, a 100-car train is...
April 10, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following editorial appeared on the Roanoke Times website on April 9.) ROANOKE, Va. — The Montgomery County community is the only choice for a rail project that will benefit the entire commonwealth. It is time for Montgomery County — Elliston in particular...
April 9, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by S. Heather Duncan appeared at Macon.com on April 9.) MACON, Ga. — New federal limits on air pollution from trains could significantly reduce Middle Georgia soot and smog pollution in the coming years, especially since Macon hosts a large train...
April 9, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Tim Thornton appeared on the Roanoke Times website on April 9.) ROANOKE, Va. — Putting Norfolk Southern Corp.’s intermodal rail yard in Elliston may take 15 million more taxpayers’ dollars than the estimate the state released...
April 8, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Tim Thornton appeared on the Roanoke Times website on April 8.) ELLISTON, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp., Gov. Tim Kaine and the state Department of Rail and Public Transportation have all said Elliston is the only feasible site for an intermodal...
April 8, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Gregory Richards appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on April 7.) NORFOLK, Va. — The best location for Norfolk Southern Corp. to build its proposed Roanoke-area cargo terminal is Elliston, a village just west of Roanoke, state officials...
April 8, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Sandi Martin appeared on the Augusta Chronicle website on April 8.) AIKEN, S.C. — Norfolk Southern and Avondale Mills have settled a lawsuit over the 2005 train derailment that plant officials blame for the closure of their business. Avondale...
April 8, 2008 | FRA, Headlines, NS
(The following story by James T. Hammond appeared on The State website on April 8.) COLUMBIA, S.C. — The train wreck at Graniteville three years ago was a wake-up call for federal, state and local emergency planners that has brought stricter U.S. regulation of trains...
April 7, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Mike Gellatly appeared on the Aiken Standard website on April 5.) AIKEN, S.C. — Norfolk Southern Railways and Avondale Mills have settled a civil lawsuit that arose in the wake of the Graniteville disaster, according to sources familiar with...
