July 26, 2024 | Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Trains.com, July 25, 2024) The railroad’s Q2 2024 results show a return to normalcy compared to last year’s second quarter, which was heavily impacted by the financial toll of the hazardous materials derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. For the second quarter...
July 23, 2024 | Fatality, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board, July 22, 2024) On March 7, 2023, about 1:08 a.m. local time, a Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) conductor on NS train C75B106 was killed when the train collided with a dump truck as it entered a private highway-railroad...
July 16, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, June 25, 2024) The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency’s investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the...
June 29, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, News, NS, NTSB, Train Length
These Brothers represented BLET at the NTSB board meeting in East Palestine on June 25 (from left): Director of Political Affairs Brendan Sullivan; National VP & NLR Vince Verna; National VP and STF Chairman Randy Fannon, STF National Coordinator Brian Fransen,...
May 30, 2024 | GCA Elections, News, NS
General Chairman Jerry G. Sturdivant, Division 110, (Ludlow, Ky.), was reelected at the Norfolk Southern-Southern Lines GCA’s quadrennial meeting in Florence, Kentucky, on May 21, 2024. This is his third term of office. The Norfolk Southern-Southern Lines GCA...
May 9, 2024 | Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Associated Press, May 9, 2024) Norfolk Southern’s CEO will be under more pressure to improve profits after the railroad’s shareholders voted Thursday to elect three of the board members an activist investor nominated, but he won’t be fired right away. Full...
May 9, 2024 | Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: CNN, May 8, 2024) Just more than a year after a massive derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train led to the release of tank cars full of toxic chemicals and increased attention to the issue of railroad safety, the control of the railroad is up for grabs...
May 9, 2024 | Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Associated Press, May 9, 2024) Norfolk Southern shareholders will decide Thursday morning (May 9) whether to back an activist investor’s bid to take over the railroad’s board and replace management. Ancora Holdings picked up significant support during the...
April 25, 2024 | Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Associated Press, April 22, 2024) Norfolk Southern confirmed the $53 million, or 23 cents per share, that it earned in the first quarter. Without the settlement and some other one-time costs, the railroad said it would have made $2.39 per share while Wall...
