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A location to safely watch trains has opened near Washington, D.C. Arlington County recently opened Long Bridge Park adjacent to control point RO on CSX’s RF&P Subdivision. Arlington is at the south end of CSX’s Long Bridge across the Potomac River. This double track bridge was opened in 1904. The name “RO” comes from the […]
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern will idle the hump at Enola Yard outside Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, the fifth such move the railroad has made in the past year under its shift to a Precision Scheduled Railroading operating plan. “As of Sept. 25, 2020, Norfolk Southern will idle the hump at the Enola Yard. All […]
NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern’s senior vice president of operations, Mike Farrell, has left the railroad, CEO Jim Squires announced in an email to employees on Monday. Farrell’s departure comes exactly one week after NS announced that UP executive Cindy Sanborn would be its next chief operating officer, effective Sept. 1. Current chief operating officer, […]
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern executives are encouraged by the strong rebound in intermodal and automotive traffic, but say it’s uncertain how durable the recovery may be amid rising coronavirus cases and its potential impact on the economy. “Who knows what the rest of the year may hold?” CEO Jim Squires said this morning while […]
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern today named Union Pacific executive Cindy Sanborn as its chief operating officer, a position she also held at CSX Transportation. Sanborn was one of the first women in the industry to hold an executive-level operations position. She spent 30 years at CSX, where she rose through the ranks and ultimately […]
More Thursday rail news: NS sells Norfolk headquarters building Norfolk Southern has sold its headquarters building in Norfolk,Va., as it prepares to relocate to Atlanta. TowneBank, based in Suffolk, Va., and the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters have completed purchase of the Norfolk Southern Tower, with each planning to occupy 10 floors of the […]
IRVINE, Ky. – Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. has acquired SD40-2 No. 6162 from Norfolk Southern via donation. In its 42-year career, No. 6162 saw service in the Appalachian coalfields and hauled countless tons of freight through Central Kentucky. Chris Campbell, president of the nonprofit, says the addition to Kentucky Steam is a major milestone in […]
DULUTH, Ga. — Three people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries after a Norfolk Southern intermodal train hit a truck and derailed at a grade crossing near downtown Duluth on Wednesday morning. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the accident occurred about 9:45 a.m., and two train crewmen and the driver of the truck suffered […]
NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern has confirmed that it has idled the hump at Moorman Yard in Bellevue, Ohio, and is converting the largest classification yard in the East to a flat-switching facility. “Due to declining car volumes, NS will idle the yard’s hump and begin flat switching rail cars. This alteration will allow for […]
NORFOLK, Va. — Changes are afoot at Norfolk Southern’s Moorman Yard in Bellevue, Ohio, the largest hump yard in the East. In a letter to customers this week, Chief Marketing Officer Alan Shaw said the railroad will modify service at Bellevue this month. “We are now in the process of reviewing individual yards to enable […]
Tuesday morning rail news in brief: NS strategy officer Scheib departs; departments realigned Norfolk Southern announced Monday evening that John Scheib, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, was departing effective immediately. It also is making changes in its corporate structure, consolidating functions of its Service Optimization and Customer Engagement Division into other functions. In […]
Monday morning rail news in brief: Protesters briefly block NS line in North Carolina Norfolk Southern suspended operations through Greensboro, N.C., Saturday night and early Sunday morning because of protesters blocking its tracks, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. Local officials contacted the railroad about 10:30 p.m. and requested that it stop traffic because demonstrators were sitting […]
