E. Hunter Harrison Canadian Pacific NEW YORK CITY — CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific executives insisted last week that Precision Scheduled Railroading is a formula for growth, not a way for the industry to cut its way to prosperity. The three railroads have stored thousands of locomotives and freight cars, idled yards, and […]
NS’s four executive F-units pull an office car train through Harrisburg, Pa., in August 2012. Trains: Jim Wrinn ALTOONA, Pa. — Two of Norfolk Southern’s “Fab Four” Electro-Motive F units — F9A No. 270 and F7B No. 275 — have been purchased by Pennsylvania regional Reading & Northern, the railroad announced Saturday. “We’re going to fix […]
A Twitter post shows damage to Pittsburgh’s Station Square light rail station in August 2018. The agency which operates the light rail system will receive more than $2.5 million in reimbursement for damages from Norfolk Southern. Port Authority of Allegheny County, via Twitter PITTSBURGH — The Port Authority of Allegheny County will receive more than […]
The F units lead an office car train at Harrisburg, Pa., prior to their renumbering. Dan Cupper ALTOONA, Pa. – Norfolk Southern has put its A-B-B-A set of executive F unit locomotives up for auction, according to an assets-disposition bidding sheet distributed on Nov. 6 and obtained by Trains News Wire. Regularly assigned to NS’s […]
Debris from three trains is visible after a westbound Norfolk Southern train of empy oil tank cars rear-ended an intermodal train in Pennsylvania on Friday, sending cars into an eastbound intermodal train on an adjacent track. LUXOR, Pa. — Service was scheduled to be restored on Norfolk Southern’s main line between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa., […]
Crews are at work re-building a washed out bridge near Kansas City, Mo. Norfolk Southern website BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Norfolk Southern’s Grand River bridge between Kansas City and Moberly, Mo., will reopen for train service tonight, Oct. 28. “NS Engineering is completing the final repairs today and service across the bridge will be restored.” NS […]
Work continues on replacement of a Norfolk Southern bridge in Missouri wiped out by flooding on Oct. 1. Norfolk Southern BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Norfolk Southern officials are projecting a Nov. 6 restoration of Kansas City-Moberly, Mo., service over the Grand River bridge near Brunswick. The bridge was destroyed by heavy rains and flood debris Oct. […]
NS C44-9W No. 9732 leads empty grain train W49 at Selma, N.C., in March 2019. Michael S. Murray NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern on Wednesday reported lower third quarter profits and revenue amid broad traffic declines. The railroad’s operating income fell 2%, to $996 million, as revenue declined 4%, to $2.84 billion. Earnings per share […]
Norfolk Southern website As Norfolk Southern crews work round-the-clock, the railroad estimates a mid-November re-opening of a bridge between Kansas City and Moberly, Mo., destroyed October 1 by flood and debris on the Grand River near Brunswick, Mo. As an alternate route, the Surface Transportation Board on Friday granted NS trackage rights on a parallel […]
WASHINGTON — A Missouri bridge outage has prompted Norfolk Southern to seek temporary trackage rights on a parallel Kansas City Southern line. On Wednesday, NS filed a request with the Surface Transportation Board for “expedited” granting of access to the KCS line between Kansas City, Mo., and Mexico, Mo. The filing is the result of […]
No injuries were reported when 34 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Perry, Ga., rupturing a gas line to a nearby factory. Houston County Emergency Management Agency, via Facebook PERRY, Ga. — A section of a state highway will remain closed at least until Friday following the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train […]
HAMILTON, Ohio — Two Norfolk Southern trains collided early Tuesday morning, injuring at least one crew member and disrupting traffic in an adjacent Cincinnati suburb. The accident occurred about 1:30 a.m. In an email statement to Fox 19 TV, Norfolk Southern spokesman Tom Werner said southbound intermodal train 25A rear-ended train 143, derailing three cars […]
