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BLET engineer takes Norfolk Southern train on safety tour (The following story by Robert McCabe appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on October 29, 2009. Daniel Q. Jackson is a member of BLET Division 231 in Crewe, Va. NORFOLK, Va. Dan Jackson has been a locomotive engineer since 1979. "Kn...
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Explosion damages 200 feet of rail line
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Explosion damages 200 feet of rail lineAbout 200 feet of railroad track -- including 400 feet of rail and 160 ties -- along the Nickel Plate Road rail line was damaged by heat during last week's tanker truck explosion at I-69 and I-465, the Indianapolis Star reported. That's the rail line that transpo...
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NS cuts trees; neighbors moan
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NS cuts trees; neighbors moanWEST CHESTER TWP., Ohio - Not much shields the noise of a passing train, but trees block the view fairly well, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Norfolk Southern Railway cleared trees and brush from its right of way near the crossing at Dimmick Road in West Chester during...
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NS 3Q profit down; CEO 'hopeful'
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NS 3Q profit down; CEO 'hopeful'Norfolk Southern Corp.'s (NSC) third-quarter profit declined a less-than-expected 42 percent as executives of the railroad company expressed optimism that the economy has bottomed and "hopefully" is in recovery, the Wall Street Journal reports. &q...
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BREAKING NEWS: One Dead in Railroad Tunnel Accident The accident was reported inside Tunnel #4 in Stepptown around 5:15 a.m. Thursday morning. http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/65517252.html KERMIT, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- One person has been killed in a construction accident inside a Norfolk &a...
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STB says only NS revenue adequate
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STB says only NS revenue adequateThe Surface Transportation Board announced Monday (Oct. 26) that only one Class I railroad, Norfolk Southern, achieved revenue adequacy for the year 2008, reports Railway Age magazine. All others were found to be "revenue inadequate" last year. The a...
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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2561072/#The railroad removed Kathryn Class from yardmaster training and replaced her with a less qualified male employee, the EEOC said in its lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-02566-RD...
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NS updates online carbon footprint analyzer
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NS updates online carbon footprint analyzer (Norfolk Southern issued the following on October 22, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) has enhanced its online carbon footprint analyzer, enabling rail customers to estimate the value of carbon offsets in addition to cal...
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Date: 10/16/09 09:07 Nickel Plate Road - Merger 1964 Author: Eddie-Durnwald October 16, 1964, 45 years ago The NKP Nickel Plate Road, Wabash, ACY - Akron Canton and Youngstown and P&WV - Pittsburgh and West Virginia merge into the N&W, Norfolk and Western. Eddie Durnwald Fostoria, Ohio
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Norfolk Southern wants dialogue with McCalla residents
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Norfolk Southern wants dialogue with McCalla residents (The following appeared on the Birmingham News website on October 20, 2009.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Norfolk Southern wants leaders in McCalla to form a community outreach group in hopes of having a dialogue with residents and working with the rai...
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NS close to intermodal deal J.B. Hunt
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NS close to intermodal deal J.B. HuntU.S. freight company J.B. Hunt Transport Services is close to signing a long-term intermodal agreement with an eastern railroad, most likely Norfolk Southern Corp., Reuters reported. JB Hunt, which provides trucking as well as intermodal services, current...
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Railroad Aficionados were turned over to Norfolk-Southern railroad police
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Train watchers found taking metal platesMACEDONIA, Ohio -- Two Garfield Heights men who claimed they were railroad aficionados were turned over to Norfolk-Southern railroad police after Macedonia police found they had gathered more than two dozen iron tie plates from around the rail line to sel...
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Norfolk Southern offers text message alerts on rail car shipments
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Norfolk Southern offers text message alerts on rail car shipments (Norfolk Southern issued the following on October 12, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. Norfolk Southern customers now can receive text messages notifying them of the status of shipments with Railcar Event Alerts. Using a simple application o...
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Norfolk Southern moving 20 jobs from Roanoke to Atlanta
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Norfolk Southern moving 20 jobs from Roanoke to Atlanta (The following story by Jeff Sturgeon appeared on The Roanoke Times website on October 10, 2009.) ROANOKE, Va. Norfolk Southern Corp. will move 30 jobs from Roanoke to Atlanta, effective Nov. 16, the company said. Railroad spokesman Robin Ch...
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Crews enlarge tunels for taller trains
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Crews enlarge tunels for taller trainsKERMIT, W. Va. - Opening a new rail gateway for double-stacked containers is taking place across southern West Virginia 20 grueling feet at a time, the Charleston Daily Mail reports. Every weekday, Norfolk Southern Corp. shuts down a portion of its main line b...
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Date: 10/06/09 06:26 NS Signals Author: navy5717th Could somebody in the know please tell me what the following NS signal configuration means? X Y X R X X R X Key: X = Dark; Y= Yellow; R = Red Thanks, Fritz in Huntsville, AL [ Reply To This Message ] [ Quote ]Date: 10/06/09 06:31 Re: NS Signals Author: mkost...
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Arsonists set rail ties on fire
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Arsonists set rail ties on fireMIAMI TWP., Ohio -- Mischief-makers set a stack of 75 railroad ties on fire about 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, police said, shutting down a rail line just south of the Miamisburg city limits, the Dayton Daily News reported. It took firefighters about four hours to extinguish t...
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Norfolk Southern targets $140 million for Patriot Corridor
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Norfolk Southern targets $140 million for Patriot Corridor (The following story by Priyanka Dayal appeared on the Telegram & Gazette website on October 2, 2009.) AYER, Mass. Prisco R. Morella expects a delivery every day. On Wednesday, it came at 1:45 in the afternoon 126,000 gallons of veget...
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NS train spills seven miles of coal
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NS train spills seven miles of coalDUFFIELD, W. Va. A Norfolk Southern train traveling through the Duffield area spilled what could be up to 100 tons of coal Thursday along a seven-mile stretch of railroad near Natural Tunnel State Park, the Times News reports. The spilled occurred when a set of truc...
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NS faces flooding shutdowns, delays
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NS faces flooding shutdowns, delaysNorfolk Southern Railway got two major rail routes back in service after days of flood closures this week around Atlanta, but it will be a while before traffic is back to normal, the Journal of Commerce reported. Spokesman Robin Chapman said "trains are run...
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Railroad crackdown in Elkhart
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Railroad crackdown in ElkhartELKHART, Ind. -- Elkhart police and railroad agents have been issuing trespassing warnings and arresting people walking along railroad tracks in the northern Indiana city. Norfolk Southern Railway agents and Elkhart police say they started the crackdown because...
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NS solves whooping mystery
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NS solves whooping mysteryROANOKE, Va. - Whoop, here it is! The answer. The official answer. All right, there may be a few caveats, but I think we can declare the Mystery of the Norwich Whoop solved at last, writes Tom Angleberger in the Roanoke Times. In case you just tuned in, there are noises in Norwi...
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NS whistle-stop train delivers safety training to emergency responders in New York, Ohio, and West Virginia
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NS whistle-stop train delivers safety training to emergency responders in New York, Ohio, and West Virginia (Norfolk Southern issued the following on September 17, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. A special train will travel to New York, Ohio, and West Virginia Sept. 22-26 to provide emergency preparedness...
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NS thanks partners in Crescent Corridor stimulus
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NS thanks partners in Crescent Corridor stimulusNORFOLK, Va. -- Norfolk Southern commended its partners in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee for their leadership in supporting the Crescent Corridor program to increase rail freight transportation capacity and im...
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