Action on Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor!

It’s not often you get to see railroad history in the making, but these video clips of Norfolk Southern intermodal trains in the Blue Ridge Mountains show just that. You’ll be watching trains 201 and 202, which started running in January of 2013 between Memphis and the Northeast on the Crescent Corridor.

This new corridor is Norfolk Southern’s attempt to develop a domestic intermodal business virtually from scratch, in an area where the hauls are short and far more conducive to truck travel. It’s a battle that’s as tough as the hilly grades these trains are crossing.

Trains Magazine will bring you the whole story of the Crescent Corridor in its September 2013 issue, on newsstands now. Inside you’ll learn just what it took to for Norfolk Southern to turn this line into an intermodal route, and what its plans for the future are. You’ll see train schedules, maps, and information detailing the new terminals and the work required to speed up operations.

So pick up the September 2013 issue of Trains magazine, and get the whole story of Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor. And enjoy this video footage, taken by photographer and Trains magazine blogger named Samuel Phillips, showing Crescent Corridor trains in Virginia’s scenic Blue Ridge mountains.
-Matt Van Hattem