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More Thursday rail news: NS sells Norfolk headquarters building Norfolk Southern has sold its headquarters building in Norfolk,Va., as it prepares to relocate to Atlanta. TowneBank, based in Suffolk, Va., and the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters have completed purchase of the Norfolk Southern Tower, with each planning to occupy 10 floors of the […]
Norfolk & Western No. 611 sits at Buena Vista, Va., this morning on its trip to Pennsylvania’s Strasburg Rail Road. Kevin Gilliam BUENEA VISTA, Va. — Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 has begun its trek to Pennsylvania, but its northbound run through the Shenandoah Valley is going less than smooth thanks to a freight […]
NORFOLK, Va. — Amtrak service in and out of Norfolk remains suspended at least through today following the derailment of a Norfolk Southern coal train on Tuesday morning. Four Amtrak Northeast Regional trains that normally serve Norfolk will operate on modified schedules. Train No. 94 will operate from Richmond, Va., to Boston and train No. […]
As light fades, a lone ES44AC powers a southbound Kansas City Southern intermodal train of solid JB Hunt containers on the Rosenberg Subdivision at Ganado, Texas, in November 2017. Bill Stephens KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has tightened southbound cross-border intermodal schedules — by as much as one or two days in some […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has launched faster and, in most cases, more frequent intermodal service from Mexico to destinations on Norfolk Southern and Canadian National. The service changes, effective today, are part of the railroad’s shift to Precision Scheduled Railroading. “The goal is to consolidate traffic, create more density and, in some […]
Southern E8 No. 6901 as it appears in Duluth, Ga., after a mechanical restoration. Todd DeFeo DULUTH, Ga. — A vintage Southern Railway locomotive has returned to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Ga., after nearly four years of restoration work. Southern Railway No. 6901, an E8a diesel passenger locomotive, routinely powered Crescent passenger train […]
Pat Ottensmeyer, Kansas City Southern CEO TRAINS: David Lassen KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has hired a veteran Canadian National executive as a consultant who will help lead its gradual shift to Precision Scheduled Railroading during the next two years. Sameh Famhy, who was senior vice president of engineering, mechanical and supply management […]
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern will pay Virginia and the city of Norfolk about $2.4 million as a result of its announced plan to move its headquarters to Atlanta. The Virginian-Pilot reports the funds represent a repayment of incentives the company received as part of a 2016 agreement to keep its headquarters in Norfolk until […]
SPENCER, N.C. — The North Carolina Transportation Museum has restored Southern Railway No. 550555 to its original commemorative paint scheme. In 1970, the 50-foot cushioned boxcar was the 200,000th freight car built by Pullman-Standard at their Bessemer, Ala., plant. The factory opened in 1929. Southern Railway president W. Graham Claytor Jr. and Pullman-Standard president George […]
Kansas City Southern CEO Patrick J. “Pat” Ottensmeyer TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Kansas City Southern has enough motive power and train crews to handle anticipated traffic growth this year, but its key route to Mexico has experienced slowdowns over the past five months amid congestion on Union Pacific in the Houston area. “While we […]
Interstate office car No. 101 has been saved yet again in Big Stone Gap, Va. Ron Flanary BIG STONE GAP, Va. — For wooden Interstate Railroad office car No. 101, life is starting anew at age 148. The car, located in Big Stone Gap, Va., and now under restoration for the second time in the […]
PORT CLINTON, Pa. — Reading & Northern continues to add to its locomotive roster to keep up with growing business on the 320-mile northeastern Pennsylvania short line. The railroad’s latest acquisitions are three EMD GP38-2s, purchased at a Norfolk Southern equipment action in Roanoke, Va. Ranging from 38- to 43-years old, NS Nos. 5139, 5184, […]
