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...
April 3, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines, NS
(The following story by Janet Kelley appeared at Lancaster Online on April 2.) LANCASTER, Pa. — A federal judge has rejected the appeal of a $24.2 million verdict against two railroad companies for injuries suffered by two teenagers climbing on a train car parked near...
March 31, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(Reuters circulated the following on March 28.) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern Corp boost its 2008 capital expenditures budget by $64 million to speed up the purchase of new coal cars and take advantage of a tax deduction, the company said in a regulatory filing on...
March 28, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story by Andrew M. Seder appeared on the Times Leader website on March 28.) WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The state has released more than $10 million in matching grants to assist the rail freight industry. Among the recipients are five projects in Luzerne...
March 26, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(The following story appeared on the Chattanooga Times/Free Press website on March 25.) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A $2 billion project aimed at taking freight off tractor-trailers and putting it on rail could mean faster, longer trains barreling through North Georgia and...
March 24, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(The following story appeared on the Knoxville News Sentinel website on March 23.) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Railroad traffic resumed Saturday through Knoxville’s Old City as crews cleaned up a train derailment from the night before. A Norfolk Southern train jumped the...
March 24, 2008 | Headlines, NS
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane and Deirdre Bolton on March 20.) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern Corp., which gets more of its revenue from carrying autos than any other large U.S. railroad, said its volume is being hurt by a strike...
