October 22, 2021 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WGRZ, October 20, 2021) CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — A rail worker suffered a severe arm injury Wednesday morning while working at the Norfolk Southern Railway off Kennedy Road in Cheektowaga. Police say a train was heading west when it hit the man...
October 12, 2021 | Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Freight Waves, October 6, 2021) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Norfolk Southern has reopened an intermodal terminal serving Louisville, Kentucky, in light of “strong growth” in the intermodal market there. NS reopened the terminal in Buechel, Kentucky, on...
October 4, 2021 | Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, October 1, 2021) ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern Corporation will announce its third-quarter financial results during a live conference call and internet webcast at 8:45 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. Quarterly earnings...
October 1, 2021 | Headlines, NS, Technology
(Source: Norfolk Southern and Progress Rail press release, September 30, 2021) ALBERTVILLE, Ala. and ATLANTA — Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company, and Norfolk Southern Corporation have collaborated on the first EMD GP34ECO locomotive built for yard and intermediate...
September 30, 2021 | News, NS, PSR
CLEVELAND, (Sept. 30, 2021) — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) have joined forces to defeat efforts by Norfolk...
September 14, 2021 | Headlines, NS
(Source: American Journal of Transportation, September 13, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s almost exactly 11 years since the “Heartland Corridor” opened for business, providing an intermodal link from the Port of Norfolk, Virginia to, as the name implies, the U.S....
September 9, 2021 | BNSF, Headlines, NS
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 9, 2021) Since more intermodal capacity is needed to help ease supply-chain congestion that has slowed U.S. container flows, BNSF Railway Co. and Norfolk Southern Railway have reopened key intermodal terminals. On September...
August 30, 2021 | Headlines, NS, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, August 28, 2021) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Class I railroads are watching whether Hurricane Ida will impact operations on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Full story: Freight Waves
August 18, 2021 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Railway Age, August 17, 2021) NEW YORK — The Port of Virginia (POV) processed 293,126 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in July, up 32.6% over the prior-year period, it reported on Aug. 17. Full story: Railway Age
August 17, 2021 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Kansas City Star, August 16, 2021) OCONEE, Ga. — A cleanup effort is underway after a train derailed near the downtown area of a central Georgia city on Monday. Central Drive in Oconee is “completely” blocked after a Norfolk Southern train traveling westbound...
