Norfolk Southern Archives

September 05, 2013
Class I

Sustainability: It’s not easy being green

Railroad industry participants in the 2013 GE Transportation/Norfolk Southern Railroad Sustainability Forum in Crotonville, N.Y., are learning that, although “it’s not easy being green,” investing time and resources into sustainability programs and technologies is not only something that needs to be done from a corporate responsibility standpoint, it’s also a potential source of long-term financial benefit.

August 12, 2013
Class I

Amtrak, NS, Commonwealth of Virginia embark on service extension to Roanoke

Amtrak, Norfolk Southern, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the City of Roanoke have joined together to start work to extend Amtrak regional intercity passenger rail service from Lynchburg to Roanoke, the “Star City.”

August 12, 2013
Class I

U.S. Appeals Court reverses Class I price-fixing decision

Union Pacific Corp., CSX Corp., Norfolk Southern Corp., and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) have won their bid to reverse a ruling that turned a price-fixing lawsuit against them into a class action with potential damages of at least $10 billion.

August 09, 2013
Class I

NS outlines initiatives on greenhouse gases

Norfolk Southern on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 disclosed the railroad’s business strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its environmental footprint in a filing with the international not-for-profit CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project.

August 07, 2013
Class I

Norfolk Southern: Anticipate, adapt, accomplish

The goal of capital expenditures is to link investments to the quality of the transportation product, generating increased customer satisfaction. Perhaps no railroad does it better than Norfolk Southern.

July 23, 2013
Class I

Norfolk Southern 2Q net income declines

Norfolk Southern Corp. said its second-quarter net income of $465 million in the second quarter was 11% lower than the $524 million notched in the second quarter of 2012.

July 17, 2013
Class I

NS completes Mon Line upgrade

Norfolk Southern has completed $22.6 million in track, bridge, and signal improvements along its 85-mile “Mon Line,” a major coal route through Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley.

June 26, 2013
Class I

NS opens Columbia, S.C. transfer terminal

Norfolk Southern said Wednesday, June 26 it has opened a new Thoroughbred Bulk Transfer terminal in Columbia, S.C.

May 30, 2013
Class I

Norfolk Southern supports “Ride 2 Recovery”

Norfolk Southern will honor more than 200 wounded military veterans Saturday, June 1, when they stop in Norfolk, Va., as part of their week-long “Ride 2 Recovery” memorial challenge.

May 30, 2013
Class I

NS “training brains” with graphic public-safety billboards

Graphic billboards showing a cast on a person’s leg with the caption, “I raced a train and all I got was this lousy full-body cast”; two feet poking out from a white sheet in a morgue with the tagline, “I raced a train and all I got was this lousy toe tag”; and depicting a cemetery headstone with the inscription, “I raced a train and all I got was this lousy tombstone”, are all part of Norfolk Southern’s “Train Your Brain” public safety program, which warns motorists and pedestrians of the (literally) grave consequences of disregarding railroad signals and trespassing on railroad property.