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NS paid nearly $12 million for rail hub land at McCalla
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NS paid nearly $12 million for rail hub land at McCalla (The following story by Michael Tomberlin appeared on the Birmingham News website on December 29, 2009.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Norfolk Southern Corp. paid nearly $12 million to purchase the 316 acres in McCalla where it plans to build a $112 million...
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NS update: Winter storm impacting mid-Atlantic operations
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NS update: Winter storm impacting mid-Atlantic operations (Norfolk Southern issued the following on December 21, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. Norfolk Southern continues to work to restore normal operations across a wide area that was hit with a winter storm over the weekend. Power outages in many of the h...
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Stimulus funds may help Norfolk Southern complete its Crescent Corridor project
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Stimulus funds may help Norfolk Southern complete its Crescent Corridor project (The following story by Preston Knight appeared on the Northern Virginia Daily website on December 23, 2009.) STRASBURG, Va. Norfolk Southern Corp. expects to learn next month whether the U.S. Department of Transp...
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Yobs nabbed playing chicken' with trainGOSHEN, Ind. - A Norfolk Southern train engineer made an emergency stop in Goshen just after 4 a.m. Friday, WSBT-TV reports. Four youths were playing chicken' with the oncoming train near Fifth Street, prompting the engineer to stop the train and call police...
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Norfolk Southern CEO sells 50,000 Shares
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Norfolk Southern CEO sells 50,000 Shares (The following appeared at GuruFocus.com on December 14, 2009.) President, Chairman & CEO of Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) Charles W Moorman sells 50,000 shares of NSC on 12/14/2009 at an average price of $53.01 a share. Norfolk Southern Corp., a Virgi...
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Mining Job Cuts.....Its Obama's Fault
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By Amanda Carpenter Mining jobs cut Chalk up another 500 jobs to the list that President Obama will need to create or save. A Pittsburgh-based coal company, Consol Energy Inc., will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year, and its chief blames the job losses on environmentalists dea...
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NS joins 'green' group
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NS joins 'green' groupMONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Norfolk Southern Railroad, which has a spur line to Prattville, has joined the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit environmental group, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. "Railroads are the most environmentally friendly means of mov...
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NS releases holiday operations schedule
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NS releases holiday operations scheduleIn observance of the Christmas holiday, Norfolk Southern will curtail (non-intermodal) freight operations beginning 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. Full operations will resume at 7 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. Interline gateways will remain op...
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There's also a short video if you wish. Click to Print Story Published on Friday, December 4, 2009 Johnson Citys Christmas Parade got off to an unanticipated start Friday night when a train struck a police cruiser parked near the tracks. No one was injured as the incident occurred just before 6 p.m. Ho...
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Norfolk Southern launches new investor relations site
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Norfolk Southern launches new investor relations site (Norfolk Southern issued the following on December 3, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today launched a more comprehensive and user-friendly investors section on its Web site. To visit the site, go to www.nscor...
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Oh Rudy.....don't take your love to town
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No injuries in central Pa. Norfolk Southern derailment (The Associated Press circulated the following on December 3, 2009.) McVEYTOWN, Pa. Norfolk Southern is cleaning up debris from a train derailment in rural central Pennsylvania. No injuries were reported. Railroad spokesman Rudy Husband...
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NS changes location of Tenn. yard
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NS changes location of Tenn. yardMEMPHIS, Tenn. - Developer William Adair was raised in Fayette County within 200 yards of the Wolf River, the Flyer reports. "We ate fish out of the Wolf for the first 12 years of my life, and I hunted up and down the river for many years," Adair said. "Th...
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Attempt to block Elliston intermodal yard haltedA judge ruled against Montgomery County's challenge, but the county hasn't said whether it will appeal.By Jeff Sturgeon | The Roanoke TimesRelatedPrevious coverageTransportation plan looks at rail investmentElliston: On a different track, f...
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NS plan to run trains through park angers W.Va. officials (The following story by Billy Wolfe appeared on the Daily Mail website on November 20, 2009.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. Kanawha County parks officials are bristling at a plan by a short-line railroad company to reactivate two local rail lines, incl...
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Date: 11/24/09 19:07 NS Locomotives in Storage Update Author: NSDash9 Here is the latest update. NS currently has 173 units from the active roster in storage. A breakdown of stored units by model: 1 - RP-E4 Slug 2 - RP-E4U Slug 1 - EMD SW1001 20 - EMD SW1500 8 - EMD MP15DC 7 - EMD GP38-2 1 - EMD GP40-2 (has wre...
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Va. port to expand NORFOLK, Va. - Mediterranean Shipping Co., the second-largest shipping line in the world, has made Hampton Roads its "last out" and southern-most port of call on a revised service to the Middle and Far East, a port executive told a panel of state officials on Friday, the...
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http://www.thefutureneedsus.com/ They need our help. That's you and me. And all for THEM.
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Train carrying sulfuric acid derails
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Train carrying sulfuric acid derailsGILBERT, S.C. - A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying sulfuric acid derailed early Sunday morning in Gilbert. The incident prompted authorities to issue voluntary evacuations in the surrounding area, the WLTX Web site reports. It was an early morning wa...
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Date: 11/18/09 09:21 NS at Wauseon Ohio problem Author: farmer Local radio reporting train broke down blocking all crossings in since early morning.
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NS calls back workers in Ala.
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NS calls back workers in Ala.MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. - An increase in rail traffic moving through the state has prompted Norfolk Southern Railway to call 61 Sheffield yard employees back to work, the Florence, Ala., Times Daily reports. "In response to an increase in traffic and to improve the eff...
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Group hears pluses of NS hub
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Group hears pluses of NS hubMcCALLA, Ala. - McCalla residents in favor of a $112 million Norfolk Southern railroad hub -- and a few who remain undecided -- were able to hear from some of those behind the project at a meeting Monday night, the Birmingham News reports. The Norfolk Southern-backed M...
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bnsf or bufet railroad compared contract response from gc
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It was also asked if our office could provide some explanation about the difference in GWIs between the 2008 NS agreement and the 2009 BNSF agreement. It is difficult to compare the agreements between these two properties because neither one has patterned itself after the other over the years. We...
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NS invests in Philly yard expansion
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NS invests in Philly yard expansionPHILADELPHIA, Pa. Norfolk Southern and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are investing $11 million in the railroads Philadelphia Navy Yard intermodal facility to expand track and parking capacity, the carrier announced in a press release. The expansion is pa...
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