January 10, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines, NS
(Source: Rochester First, January 10, 2020) CASTILE, N.Y. — It was history at the Letchworth State Park on January 9 as an Amtrak engine crossed over the new Genesee arch bridge for the first time ever. The locomotive was heading to Hornell’s Alstom plant. It’s at...
January 9, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WDBJ, January 8, 2020) ROANOKE, Va. — More than 200 workers have been furloughed from Norfolk Southern’s Roanoke locations over the past 12 months. Now, Virginia Career Works, the City of Roanoke and Norfolk Southern itself are teaming to...
January 8, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail, January 7, 2020) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A legislative interim committee is calling for a meeting with Norfolk Southern railway officials to discuss ways to save the state’s $18 million investment in the $32 million Heartland Gateway...
January 8, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WRDW, January 7, 2020) GRANITEVILLE, S.C. — Heart and breathing problems, body pain, and emotional trauma — that’s what people in Graniteville still feel today 15 years after a massive, deadly chlorine release that left nine...
January 7, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WSET, January 6, 2020) ROANOKE, Va. — Norfolk Southern announced furloughs for less than 70 employees in Roanoke Monday morning, Jan. 6. In September of last year, they furloughed 130 employees then last April they let go of 45 more...
January 6, 2020 | Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, January 3, 2020) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corporation will announce its fourth-quarter financial results during a conference call and live internet webcast at 8:45 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Quarterly earnings...
January 6, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Suffolk News-Herald, December 30, 2019) SUFFOLK, Va. — The source of a mysterious mist that sickened two train workers as their train passed through downtown Suffolk on Saturday evening is still undetermined, according to city officials. Full story: Suffolk...
January 6, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WJAC, January 2, 2020) ALTOONA, Pa. — A state representative wants a railroad corporation to step up, following three rounds of layoffs from Norfolk Southern’s Juniata Locomotive Shops in 2019. Full story:...
January 6, 2020 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Aiken Standard, January 6, 2020) AIKEN, S.C. — The nine lives lost is the first thing Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt thinks of when he remembers the deadly train derailment in Graniteville, which happened in the early morning 15 years ago today. At 2:39...
January 6, 2020 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Washington Post, January 4, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over 20,000 rail workers have lost their jobs in the past year, the biggest layoffs in rail since the Great Recession and a nearly 10 percent decline in rail employment, according to Labor Department data...
