Norfolk Southern News

As part of the 21st Century Steam program of Norfolk Southern and the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, a number of excursions are being offered in June in North Carolina and Virginia behind steam locomotive 630.

City planners suggested diverting the line off the former Norfolk Southern right-of-way and up Laskin Road along one of the feeder streets that flank both sides of the busy artery.

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Norfolk Southern is celebrating its corporate heritage and showcasing the benefits of rail freight transportation with a 15-city tour.

Virginia Beach is poised to acquire a 30-foot-wide strip of land crucial to the city's development of a light-rail station.

The Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car, shown here inside a Juniata Shops maintenance facility at Altoona, Pa., showcases the benefits of rail freight transportation.

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Norfolk Southern's Heritage locomotives will gather for a "family portrait" at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, N.C., during the Fourth of July week.

More cars, less coal. That sums up the shipping trends at the biggest U.S. railroads so far in the second quarter.

The Charlotte Area Transit System has achieved a key milestone in its efforts to extend the Lynx Blue Line light-rail system.

Boones Mill has offered land to relocate the depot, but it will cost about $100,000 to move it.

Norfolk Southern Corporation will close the Cleveland Avenue Railroad Crossing between 17th Street and 18th Street for paving from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Kings Mountain Police on the scene after around 7:30 a.m. Friday, May 4, 2012, a northbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train, collided with a tractor-trailer that got stuck on the the Oak Street grade crossing heading onto South Battleground Avenue.

NORFOLK, Va. - Saying "we can look back with a lot of satisfaction" on 2011's record performance by Norfolk Southern Corporation, CEO Wick Moorman told stockholders at the company's 30th annual meeting, held today in Williamsburg, Va., that he is "confident, optimistic, and enthusiastic about our future business prospects." Moorman outlined a ... (more)

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Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. are piggybacking off a resurgence in U.S. auto sales that's generating the most business for railroads in four years.

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April's 2012 rail data looks like more than a little bit of history repeated. While the healths of the railroads and the economy have generally been pretty closely correlated, some of that linkage is breaking down.

NORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern added the Monongahela Railway to the legacy railroads that the company is honoring with its 30th anniversary heritage paint schemes, bringing to 20 the number of predecessor roads to be so recognized.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, with Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman, at the April 2011 groundbreaking for the railroad's intermodal facility in Rossville, Tenn.