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...
December 12, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 12, 2018) ATLANTA, Ga. — The alliance between the Gold Dome and Atlanta City Hall that helped forge a publicly-financed plan to build a mini-city atop downtown’s long-neglected Gulch also laid the tracks to snag a...
December 12, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 11, 2018) NORFOLK, Va. — Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms are expected Wednesday to formally announce a completed deal to relocate the headquarters of railroad giant Norfolk Southern to Atlanta,...
December 11, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Norfolk Southern Service Alert, December 10, 2018) NORFOLK, Va. — NS will not accept trains at interchange from 7:00 a.m., Monday, December 24th through 10:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 25th. NS operations will cease at 4:00 p.m., Monday, December 24 through...
December 7, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Daily Press, December 6, 2018) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp.’s plans to move its headquarters to Atlanta continue to solidify. So much so that Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms thanked the railroad with a “welcome to Atlanta” on...
December 4, 2018 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 3, 2018) GAINESVILLE, Ga. — State officials unveiled plans Monday to build a $90 million inland port — on land connected to one of Gov. Nathan Deal’s top allies — that’s designed to improve access to Savannah’s booming...
