Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have announced tweaks to their interline intermodal service in the wake of major changes made earlier this year that dropped nearly 500 low-volume lanes. The latest moves, which take effect on July 1, follow the same theme: Favoring high-density routes that support steel wheel interchange in Chicago and Memphis. This […]
ALTOONA, Pa. – Norfolk Southern has laid off about 50 workers at its former Conrail locomotive shop in Altoona, the Altoona Mirror reports. The employees will be offered positions elsewhere in the company. An unnamed employee at the facility, known as the Juniata Shops, attributes to the reduction to Norfolk Southern’s implementation of Precision Scheduled […]
LUMBERTON, Miss. — More than two dozen cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday morning, an incident believed to have caused by flooding in the area. The Associated Press reports that a Norfolk Southern spokeswoman said in an email that the train, en route from Birmingham, Ala., to New Orleans, derailed about 7:15 a.m. Three […]
Overturned coal cars still blocked the main line at the derailment site on Monday afternoon. Vince Webb HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Crews are working Tuesday to clean up a derailed Norfolk Southern coal train near Woodville, about 20 miles east of Huntsville in northern Alabama. The train derailed 26 cars on Monday morning, blocking a street […]
A Norfolk Southern contractor has removed a position light signal from the Pennsylvania Railroad era along the main line between Harrisburg and Altoona, Pa. Dan Cupper HARRISBURG, Pa. — Contractors working for Norfolk Southern over the weekend removed the last classic Pennsylvania Railroad-style wayside position-light signals on the 131-mile stretch of main line between Harrisburg, […]
NORFOLK, Va. — It was a record first quarter for Norfolk Southern, as the railroad set a string of financial records as smoother operations and rate increases more than made up for flat overall traffic volume. “We are finding that the more we adopt new practices and ideas, the more we can drive bottom line […]
Map of proposed trackage rights proposed by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern and filed with the Surface Transportation Board. Surface Transportation Board WASHINGTON — Norfolk Southern’s former Wabash main line across Missouri and Illinois may be getting a little busier as part of a new shortcut for Union Pacific. UP is seeking Surface Transportation Board […]
“Long-term deterioration” is believed to be the cause of this bridge collapse onto Norfolk Southern tracks last week in Toledo, Ohio. Michael D. Harding TOLEDO, Ohio — Officials believe long-term deterioration was the cause of last week’s bridge collapse that blocked Norfolk Southern’s main line through Toledo for more than six hours. The Toledo Blade […]
Crews work to clear the Norfolk Southern main line in Toledo after a bridge collapsed onto the tracks on Wednesday. Michael D. Harding TOLEDO, Ohio — A bridge collapsed onto a Norfolk Southern main line in Toledo on Wednesday, temporarily shutting down train traffic on the route to Chicago. The Maumee Avenue bridge, undergoing repair […]
With overall rail traffic down in the first quarter, only two of the big six Class I railroad systems — Canadian National and Norfolk Southern — managed volume gains through the first three months of 2019. CN’s volume was up 1 percent, while NS eked out a 0.4% gain, according to a review of Association […]
CSX train Q-032, with a single unit on the point, crosses Rail Lane with a mix of COFC/TOFC on the Philadelphia Subdivision at Elk Mills, Md, on Feb. 16, 2019 … Michael S. Murray … and another single unit, operating as distributed power, is midtrain. CSX is increasing its use of distributed power as part […]
ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern, joined by Georgia state and city leaders, today held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch construction of its new corporate headquarters building in Atlanta. “This is an exciting day for Norfolk Southern: We break ground on a new headquarters building, and equally important, begin a new chapter of our railroad’s proud history […]
