January 8, 2019 | FRA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Augusta Chronicle, January 8, 2010) AUGUSTA, Ga. — An investigation into Sunday night’s train derailment in Jefferson County could take weeks to be completed. Norfolk Southern said the train was traveling from Macon to Augusta. Two of the 37 cars that...
January 3, 2019 | Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, January 3, 2019) NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corporation will announce its fourth-quarter financial results during a conference call and live internet webcast at 4:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Quarterly earnings...
January 3, 2019 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Associated Press, December 28, 2018) NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia man is suing a railroad company after he says it rescinded a job offer because he’s overweight. Matthew Sturgill is suing Norfolk Southern, saying the company offered him a conductor job...
December 27, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 20, 2018) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Norfolk Southern Railroad sued Pittsburgh, seeking more than $1.1 million in damages and repair costs for two landslides in 2016, one of which buried tracks near Station Square and stalled rail...
December 27, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Roanoke Times, December 20, 2018) ROANOKE, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp. will pay back a state grant given to expand its Norfolk headquarters partly by taking jobs out of Roanoke. Full story: Roanoke Times
December 17, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Roanoke Times, December 16, 2018) ROANOKE, Va. — The McAuliffe administration erred in 2016 by issuing Norfolk Southern Corp. a state grant for moving hundreds of high-paying jobs from Roanoke to a consolidated head office in Norfolk, according to a state...
December 17, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WBTV, December 15, 2018) SPENCER, N.C. — A contractor died after being trapped between two metal plates on railroad tracks in Rowan County Saturday. Officials said it happened around 12 p.m. near the North Carolina Transportation Museum in...
December 14, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Editorial in the Roanoke Times, December 14, 2018) ROANOKE, Va. — Hope you like your new railroad headquarters. We enjoyed it for many years — well, part of it anyway. Full story: Roanoke Times
December 14, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, December 12, 2018) NORFOLK, Va. and ATLANTA, Ga. — Norfolk Southern Corporation today announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Atlanta. “Alignment, collaboration, and accountability are the hallmarks of Norfolk...
December 12, 2018 | Headlines, NS, UP
(Source: Railway Age, December 11, 2018) NEW YORK — On Monday Feb. 11, 2019, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific — both of which are rolling out their own versions of Precision Scheduled Railroading — will deploy jointly developed new routing protocols for domestic and...
