Norfolk Southern’s office car train, complete with classic EMD F units for power, is a perennial railfan favorite. See the train and its historic locomotives operate through great southeastern scenery, from www.TrainsMag.com. […]
Norfolk Southern’s office car train, complete with classic EMD F units for power, is a perennial railfan favorite. See the train and its historic locomotives operate through great southeastern scenery, from www.Trains.com. […]
NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern Corp. has named James A. Squires to succeed Charles W. “Wick” Moorman as CEO. The action by the company’s board of directors is part of its planned succession process and will be effective June 1, 2015. Squires will continue in his current capacity as president and with all major divisions […]
Take a cab ride around our HO scale modern Norfolk Southern layout with operating CTC signals. The video was shot with a go pro and a cab picture was added with computer editing software. Video shot by Joshua Clark […]
Take a cab ride around our HO scale modern Norfolk Southern layout with operating CTC signals. The video was shot with a go pro and a cab picture was added with computer editing software. Video shot by Joshua Clark […]
Norfolk Southern’s Pocahontas Division is one of the most challenging areas of railroading in the United States. The division is host to several coal trains a day between Bluefield and Williamson, W.Va. The Pocahontas Division is one of the last manned helper districts, and the tonnage moved on the railroad is something to behold. Be […]
Norfolk, Va. – Norfolk Southern has released the latest in a series of popular television commercials aimed at business decision makers and the general public. The new 30-second commercial, entitled “Just Another Day,” highlights how NS moves a “nearly inconceivable” amount of freight every day, but to their folks it’s “just another day.” The railroad […]
ExactRail HO scale HO scale Norfolk Southern Protector coil steel car Price: $46.95 Manufacturer ExactRail 251 W. River Park Drive, Suite 300 Provo, Utah 84604 www.ExactRail.com Era: 1992 to present Comments: This HO scale, ready-to-run model represents one of the 60 heavy-duty specialized coil steel cars built by Thrall Car Co. for the Norfolk Southern […]
Bachmann Industries HO sale Norfolk Southern fleet diesel locomotives It seems model railroaders can’t get enough of the Norfolk Southern heritage fleet. Dressed in the paint schemes of fallen flag railroads, newly tooled HO scale General Electric ES44AC and Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe locomotives are now available in the Bachmann Trains Sound Value series. The accurately […]
The first GP33ECO begins to take shape at Juniata Shops in late April. Allen Rider – Norfolk Southern ALTOONA, Pa. – Norfolk Southern’s Juniata Locomotive Shop has begun a new rebuild program to convert older four-axle EMD locomotives to modern, low-emissions road switchers. The first locomotive to enter the program was NS GP50 No. 7004 […]
Say, 1066 sounds familiar. I wonder why? Norman Conquest? Nope. Haley’s Comet? Nein. Battle of Hastings? Negative. End of the Dark Ages? Uh-uh. 1066? Oh, yeah, how could I forget! 1066 is the number of the Norfolk Southern’s New York Central Heritage unit. Oh, New York Central diesel no. 1066 was an Alco FA-2. What’s […]
Join us for an interview with two experts on the tunnel district of the Southern Railway line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, Tenn. Learn more about the abandoned tunnels in the woods of Kentucky. Find out just how difficult it is to see these relics of the steam era. […]
