Norfolk Southern Railway

Norfolk Southern Railway
NS system map; trackage rights in purple
Reporting mark	NS CG CNJ CR CRP DLW ERIE EL INT IT LHR LNE LV MGA NKP NW PC PRR PRSL RDG SA SOU VGA WAB
Locale	Eastern United States
Dates of operation	1982 (1982)–Present
Predecessor	Norfolk & Western Railway Southern Railway Conrail
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	21,500 miles (34,600 kilometres)
Headquarters	Norfolk, Virginia
Website	nscorp.com

The Norfolk Southern Railway (reporting mark NS) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the company operates over 22,000 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia,^[1] and has rights in Canada from Buffalo to Toronto and over the Albany to Montreal route.^[2][3] The most common commodity hauled on the railroad is coal from mines in Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The railroad also offers the most extensive intermodal network in eastern North America.

The current system was formed in 1982 with the creation of the Norfolk Southern Corporation, a holding company, and on December 31, 1990, the Southern Railway was renamed the Norfolk Southern Railway, and control of the Norfolk & Western Railway was transferred from the holding company to the Norfolk Southern Railway. In 1999, the system grew substantially with the acquisition of over half of Conrail.

Together Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Railroad have a duopoly over all east-west freight rail traffic east of the Mississippi River.

As of October 1, 2014 Norfolk Southern Railway's total public stock value was slightly over $34.5 billion.

History

Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The three main branches of the current corporate family tree were systems for many years themselves:

• Norfolk & Western, formed in 1881.
• Southern Railway System, formed in 1894.
• Conrail, formed in 1976 from the Penn Central Railroad (1968–1976),^[4] perhaps the most controversial conglomerate in corporate history. Penn Central itself was created by merging three venerable rivals — the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR, 1846), the New York Central Railroad (NYC, 1831), and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NYNH&H, 1872) — as well as some smaller competitors.

Southern Railway

The SR's earliest predecessor line was the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road. Chartered in December 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first in the nation to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston on December 25, 1830.^[5]

Another early predecessor, the Richmond & Danville Railroad (R&D), was formed in 1847 and expanded into a large system after the American Civil War under Algernon S. Buford. The R&D ultimately fell on hard times and in 1894, it became a major portion of the new Southern Railway (SOU). Financier J. P. Morgan selected veteran railroader Samuel Spencer as president. Profitable and innovative, Southern became in 1953 the first major U.S. railroad to completely switch to diesel-electric locomotives from steam.

Norfolk & Western

The City Point Railroad, established in 1838, was a 9-mile (14 km) railroad in Virginia that started just south of Richmond — specifically, City Point on the navigable portion of the James River, now part of the independent city of Hopewell — and ran to Petersburg. It was acquired by the South Side Railroad in 1854.

After the Civil War, it became part of the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O), a trunk line across Virginia's southern tier formed by mergers in 1870 by William Mahone, who had built the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad in the 1850s. The AM&O was the oldest portion of the Norfolk & Western (N&W) when it was formed in 1881, under new owners with a keen interest and financial investments in the coal fields of Western Virginia and West Virginia, a product which came to define and enrich the railroad.

In the second half of the 20th century, the N&W acquired the Virginian Railway (1959), the Wabash Railway, and the Nickel Plate Road, among others.^[4]

1982 merger

NS was created in 1982 from the merger of N&W and SOU, both profitable companies. The new company was given the name of the Norfolk Southern Railway, an older line, acquired by SOU in 1974, that served primarily North Carolina and the southeastern tip of Virginia. Headquarters for the new NS were established in Norfolk, Virginia. The company suffered a slight embarrassment when the marble headpiece at the building's entrance was unveiled, which read "Norfork Southern Railway". A new headpiece replaced the erroneous one several weeks later.^[6]

The merger aimed to compete in the eastern United States with CSX Transportation, formed after the Interstate Commerce Commission's 1980 approval of the merger of the Chessie System and the Seaboard System.

Conrail

Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was a 11,000-mile (18,000 km) system formed in 1976 by bringing together several ailing northeastern railway systems into a government-owned corporation. Conrail had become profitable after the Staggers Act in 1980 largely deregulated the U.S. railroad industry.

In 1996, CSX bid to buy Conrail. Norfolk Southern, fearing that CSX would come to dominate rail traffic in the eastern U.S., responded with a bid of its own. On June 23, 1997, NS and CSX filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) for authority to purchase, divide, and operate the assets of Conrail. On June 6, 1998, the STB approved the NS-CSX application, effective August 22, 1998.

NS acquired 58% of Conrail assets, while CSX got the remaining 42%, including about 7,200 miles (11,600 km) of track, most of which was part of the former Pennsylvania Railroad. NS began operating its trains on its portion of the former Conrail network on June 1, 1999, closing out the 1990s merger era.

Operations

NS is a major transporter of domestic and export coal. The railroad's major sources of the mineral are located in: Pennsylvania's Cambria and Indiana counties, as well as the Monongahela Valley; West Virginia; and the Appalachia regions of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In Pennsylvania, NS also receives coal through interchange with R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines at Cresson, Pennsylvania, originating in the "Clearfield Cluster".

NS's export of West Virginia bituminous coal, begins transport on portions of the well-engineered former Virginian Railway and the former N&W double-tracked line in Eastern Virginia to its Lambert's Point coal pier on Hampton Roads at Norfolk. Coal transported by NS is thus exported to steel mills and power plants around the world. The company is also a major transporter of auto parts and completed vehicles. It operates intermodal container and TOFC (trailer on flat car) trains, some in conjunction with other railroads. NS was the first railway to employ roadrailers, which are highway truck trailers with interchangeable wheel sets.

According to NS's 2012 Annual Report to Investors, at the end of 2012, NS had more than 30,943 employees, 3,468 locomotives, and 79,082 freight cars.

At the end of 2012, the transport of coal, coke, and iron ore made up 26% of the total operating revenue of NS, general merchandise (automotive, chemicals, metals, construction materials, agriculture commodities, consumer products, paper, clay, and forest products) made up 54%, and intermodal made up 20% of the total.

Company officers

Presidents of Norfolk Southern have included:

• Robert B. Claytor, CEO: 1982–1987
• Arnold B. McKinnon, CEO and President: 1987–1992
• David R. Goode:
  • CEO: 1992–2005
  • President: 1991–2004
• Charles "Wick" Moorman:
  • CEO: 2005–present
  • President: 2004–2013
• James A. Squires:^[7]
  • President: June 1, 2013–present

Current trackage

Regional divisions

Pittsburgh Line

The Pittsburgh Line is NS's principal east–west line from the Northeast to the Midwest. Running from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Conway, Pennsylvania, it once was the core of the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) main line. An average day sees 60 to 110 trains of all types. The line is home to the famous Horseshoe Curve.

Beginning at Altoona in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and ending at Conpit Junction in West Wheatfield Township, Pennsylvania, trains must ascend and control their speed down the faces of the Allegheny Ridge, some of the steepest slopes in the Allegheny Range. It is a helper locomotive district. Most common on helper assignments are pairs of new SD40Es (former EMD SD50 units rebuilt at NS's Juniata Shops in Altoona). On heavier unit coal trains, it is not uncommon to see two helper sets put together to create what local railfans call four-bangers. Some trains weigh more than 18,000 tons. For eastbound traffic, road crews often call for a "helper-ahead" when they are short on time.

Some lesser hills also exist west of Altoona, sometimes warranting westbound helpers to continue to Pittsburgh. For this purpose, a partial bypass of the Pittsburgh Line exists between Johnstown and Pittsburgh. Known as the Conemaugh Line, it runs from Conpit Junction to Federal Street on the North Side of Pittsburgh via a flat, though longer, route along the Conemaugh and Allegheny Rivers, bypassing several steep grades west of the Alleghenies as well as the Pittsburgh passenger station. The Conemaugh Line is used mostly by heavier freights.

Chicago Corridor

At about 150 miles, this is the most direct route for NS trains between Chicago and Fort Wayne, Indiana. It has 16 passing sidings and several stretches of double track.

Chicago Bypass

Meridian Speedway

Pan Am Southern/Patriot Corridor

On May 15, 2008, NS announced that it would join with the ailing Pan Am Railways to create the "Patriot Corridor", an improved rail route between Albany, New York, and the greater Boston, Massachusetts, area.^[8][9][10] On March 12, 2009, STB approved the deal.^[11] Each of the two companies now owns 50% of a new company known as Pan Am Southern (PAS). PAR's trackage between Ayer, Massachusetts, and Mechanicville, New York, was transferred to PAS, and continues to be operated and maintained by PAR's Springfield Terminal Railway Company subsidiary. NS transferred to PAS cash and property valued at $140 million.

Planned improvements to the route include upgrades to tracks and signals and new automotive and intermodal terminals.

Yards and facilities

Largely an eastern U.S. railway, NS directly owns and operates 21,300 miles (34,300 kilometres) of track in 22 states. It operates three primary hubs in its system: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Atlanta and maintains facilities across the Eastern US to facilitate operations, including rail classification yards, intermodal yards, and locomotive shops

NS has rights to operate its trains with its own crews on competing railroads' tracks. These trackage rights permit NS to operate as far west as Dallas, Texas, as far north as Waterville, Maine, and as far south as Miami, Florida. NS locomotives also occasionally operate on competitors' tracks throughout the U.S. and Canada due to the practice of locomotive leasing and sharing undertaken by the Class I railroads. Not including second, third, and fourth main line trackage, yards, and sidings, NS directly operates some 21,500 miles (34,600 kilometres) of track. In addition NS has direct control over approximately 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometres).

General Freight Classification Yards

Intermodal classification yards

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Locomotive shops

NS also shares interest with CSX in the Oak Island Yard, managed by Conrail Shared Assets Operations in Newark, New Jersey.

Environmental record

Air quality and fuel efficiency

In early spring of 2008, the state program manager for air quality planning in Georgia, Jimmy Johnston, had been talking to NS about voluntary upgrades to reduce the company's environmental impact. NS is upgrading 3,800 of its locomotives with new technology that is 73 percent more efficient than previous models. The new technology being put into the locomotives is making the ride more fuel efficient and reducing idle time.^[13]

NS has also introduced an experimental battery-electric switcher locomotive, NS 999. This prototype locomotive was developed by Norfolk Southern, in collaboration with the United States Department of Energy, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Pennsylvania State University.^[14]

Spillage

On January 6, 2005, a NS derailment resulted in a large amount of chlorine and diesel fuel being released into nearby waterways in Graniteville, South Carolina. In addition, a toxic cloud covered the city resulting in the town being evacuated. Federal common carrier laws prevent railroads from refusing to transport chlorine and similar Toxic Inhalation Hazard (TIH) commodities. Local wildlife was killed, many of the local crops and vegetation were contaminated or killed, nine human deaths were reported, and thousands were injured.^[15] The company is being taken to court and being fined for violating the Clean Water Act and the Federal Superfund law. NS has spent a total of $26 million for the cleanup.^[16]

Locomotive and rolling stock

Paint and colors

NS's locomotives are often called "catfish" by railfans, as the stripes are said to look like catfish whiskers. The locomotive numbered 4610, a GM-EMD GP59, was painted in predecessor Southern colors of green and white with gold trim and was a favorite of railfans. The work was done at the Debutts Yard in Chattanooga, Tennessee during the summer of 1994 and the locomotive received a repaint in the summer of 2004. The locomotive was repainted standard NS black and white in February 2012.

The current paint scheme for NS locomotives is black and white. The locomotives feature a rearing horse on the nose, which is consistent with prior marketing campaigns where NS has billed itself as "The Thoroughbred." Most NS locomotives have flashing ditch lights.

Locomotives

In 2005, NS added two types of locomotives: EMD SD70M-2s, numbered 2649–2778, and GE ES40DCs, numbered 7500-7719.

Historically, NS has only purchased DC traction Diesel locomotives. NS inherited a small number of AC traction locomotives (EMD SD80MACs) from CR. Currently, 10 of the 17 SD80MACs are assigned to the locomotive pool in South Fork, Pennsylvania. In September 2008, NS placed its first order for new AC traction locomotives: 24 GE ES44ACs, numbered 8000-8023, for use as pushers on long-haul coal trains.

Other orders include 67 ES44ACs (2010), 25 SD70ACes (2010), and 40 SD70ACes (fall 2011).

2013 NS Locomotives

Type	Owned	Leased	Total	Total Horsepower
Multiple purpose	3,763	79	3,842	13,606,600
Auxiliary units	122	—	122	—
Switching	110	—	110	165,250
Total locomotives	3,995	79	4,074	13,771,850

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  NS #9903 GE C40-9W along with two other units head west from NS Elkhart Yard

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  NS 39J lead unit NS #8372 GE C40-8W with 5 others are late leaving Kalamazoo due to weather and delays from Amtrak

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  NS #3524 GE B32-8 at NS Hinman Yard

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  NS #3067 GP40-2 with it new paint scheme sits in the snow at Botford Yard

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  A NS GP38-2 in Dover, Delaware, with depot in background

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  SOU 4610 working train GD01 in Dalton, Georgia, on January 19, 2006

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  A NS GP38-2 running long hood forward through Ridgewood, New Jersey,on NS H07 the reverse H8K on the Southern Tier and NJ Transit Main Line on March 1, 2008

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  A GP50 approaches a level crossing in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 22, 2005

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  A GE C40-9W leads a train on October 12, 2008

Heritage fleet

In the first half of 2012, Norfolk Southern painted 10 SD70ACs and 10 ES44ACs as special Heritage Units, one each bearing the paint schemes and markings of NS's predecessor railroads:^{[18][19][20][21]}

Central of Georgia (GE ES44AC) #8101 Central Railroad of New Jersey (EMD SD70ACe) #1071 Conrail ("Big Blue") (GE ES44AC) #8098 Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western (EMD SD70ACe) #1074 Erie (EMD SD70ACe) #1068 Lehigh Valley Railroad (Red) (GE ES44AC) #8104 Illinois Terminal Railroad (EMD SD70ACe) #1072 Interstate Railroad (GE ES44AC) #8105 Monongahela Railway (GE ES44AC) #8025 New York Central Railroad (EMD SD70ACe) #1066

Nickel Plate Road (GE ES44AC) #8100 Norfolk & Western (Blue "Hamburger" Logo) (GE ES44AC) #8103 Norfolk Southern (Original) (GE ES44AC) #8114 Penn Central (EMD SD70ACe) #1073 Pennsylvania Railroad (Tuscan Red) (GE ES44AC) #8102 Reading Company (EMD SD70ACe) #1067 Savannah & Atlanta (Tuxedo Black scheme) (EMD SD70ACe) #1065 Southern (Crescent Green scheme) (GE ES44AC) #8099 Virginian (EMD SD70ACe) #1069 Wabash Railroad (EMD SD70ACe) #1070

Steam excursion programs

After the 1982 merger, NS President Robert Claytor retained the Southern Railway's popular steam excursion program begun in the 1960s by his brother, SR president W. Graham Claytor. NS initially attempted to use former Chesapeake and Ohio 2716, which had been modified for the SR's program, but the locomotive developed mechanical problems, and the railway brought Norfolk & Western 611 and Norfolk & Western 1218 into the program. The railroad was forced to end the program in late 1994 after two accidents in the preceding decade and rising insurance and maintenance costs to keep it going, but restarted it in 2010 in conjunction with the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. The program currently operates Southern Railway 630, Nickel Plate 765,and Southern Railway 4501. There is also a plan for N&W 611 to be restored by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, in Roanoke, Virginia. After it is rebuilt, 611 will also take part in the 21st Century Steam program alongside 4501, 765, and 630.

Rolling stock

2013 NS Rolling Stock

Type	Owned	Leased	Total	Total Capacity (Tons)
Gondola	33,820	3,839	37,659	4,098,830
Hopper	15,234	521	15,755	1,737,636
Box	12,356	1,470	13,826	1,151,821
Covered hopper	10,558	158	10,716	1,182,466
Flat	2,506	1,133	3,639	335,196
Other	4,608	87	4,695	225,067
Total	79,082	7,208	86,290	8,731,016

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Reporting marks

Although it has been widely known as simply "Norfolk Southern" since 1982, the corporate structure and reporting marks are more complicated. In 1990, Southern Railway Company was renamed Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Its Norfolk and Western Railway company was merged into the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1997. In 1999, when most of Conrail's former PRR trackage was sold to the Norfolk Southern Railway, the Pennsylvania Railway Lines was created and PRR reporting marks used on the former Conrail motive power and rolling stock.

AGS - Alabama Great Southern Railroad CG sometimes CofG - Central of Georgia Railway CNTP - Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNO&TP) CR - Conrail GANO - Georgia Northern Railway NKP - Nickel Plate Road PRR - Pennsylvania Lines LLC

NS - Norfolk Southern NW - Norfolk and Western Railway SOU - Southern Railway TAG - Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway VGN - Virginian Railway WAB - Wabash Railroad

Television commercials

On September 3, 2007, NS launched new television ads featuring a family of gas cans cross country trekking to meet a NS train; it is a message on NS' role to reduced congestion on highways called "Lonely Gallon". It also features the song "You Don't Need Me" performed by Ravi Krishnaswami of New York and Steve Kolander of Atlanta. The song was created specially for NS. It was filmed in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.^[22] In May 2013, NS rocked National Train Day by premiering a new ad series, using music adapted from ABC's "Conjunction Junction" School House Rock program.^[23][24] The video shows an overhead view of Inman Rail Yard in Atlanta.

Awards and recognition

From 1989 to 2012, NS won the Gold (first-place) E.H. Harriman Award in Group A (line-haul railroads whose employees worked 15 million employee-hours or more) every single year.^[25] The award, which recognized the railroads with the lowest casualty rates per 200,000 employee-hours, was discontinued in 2012.^[26]

In January 2011, NS Chairman and CEO Wick Moorman was named Railroader of the Year by Railway Age magazine.^[27]

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Norfolk Southern Corporation

NS headquarters building in Norfolk, Virginia
Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: NSC
Industry	Transportation
Founded	Norfolk, Virginia, USA (July 23, 1980 (1980-07-23))
Headquarters	Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Key people	Charles W. Moorman (Chairman & CEO) James A. Squires (President)
Revenue	US$ 11.245 billion (2013)[28] US$ 11.04 billion (2012)[28]
Operating income	US$ 3.257 billion (2013)[28] US$ 3.124 billion (2012)[28]
Net income	US$ 1.91 billion (2013)[28] US$ 1.749 billion (2012)[28]
Total assets	US$ 32.483 billion (2013)[29] US$ 30.342 billion (2012)[28]
Total equity	US$ 11.289 billion (2013)[29] US$ 9.76 billion (2012)[28]
Number of employees	30,943
Website	nscorp.com

Norfolk Southern Corporation is the Norfolk, Virginia based parent company of Norfolk Southern Railway Company. Norfolk Southern Corporation was incorporated on July 23, 1980 in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbols NSC. The primary business function of Norfolk Southern Corporation is the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods across the Southeast, East, and Midwest United States. The corporation further facilitates transport to the remainder of the United States through interchange with other rail carriers while also serving overseas transport needs by serving several Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports.

Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries of Norfolk Southern Corporations (more than 50% owned and controlled)^[17]

See also

• History of railroads in Michigan
• Southern Railway's Spencer Shops (now a museum in Salisbury, North Carolina)
• List of Norfolk Southern predecessor railroads
• Thoroughbred Shortline Program

Improvement projects

• Crescent Corridor - Louisiana to New Jersey
• Heartland Corridor - Midwest to Norfolk

Cultural references

• Pope Lick Monster
• John Henry (folklore)

Trade unions

• United Transportation Union
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen
• American Train Dispatchers Association
• Transportation Communications International Union

References

General references

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Norfolk Southern Railway.

• Official Norfolk Southern company website, including a system map
• Norfolk Southern News
• Norfolk Southern Photo Archive
• Norfolk Southern Locomotives
• Yahoo! - Norfolk Southern Corporation Company Profile

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