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...
April 7, 2008 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(The following appeared on the Akron Beacon Journal website on April 4.) CLEVELAND, Ohio — Trains rumble through Lorain County and Cleveland’s western suburbs more than 50 times a day, and their horns wake residents and stop business in downtowns across the...
April 7, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 4.) NEW YORK — Railroad operator Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC) Corp. said it has agreed to sell $600 million in 5.75 percent senior notes due 2018, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange...
April 7, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Gregory Richards appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on April 6.) NORFOLK, Va. — America’s railroads are back to laying track. For decades, freight railroads tore up or sold stretches of rail as they lost cargo to trucking companies....
April 3, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 2.) AIKEN, S.C. — The former chief executive of railroad owner Norfolk Southern says he never promised that his company would pay to keep open a textile mill damaged by a 2005 toxic chemical spill. A Norfolk...
