Trains

Merged UP-NS anticipates no locomotive purchases; some shops to be idled

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern currently have more than 2,300 locomotives in storage and anticipate, at least initially, ...

UP, NS: Merger will create 10,000 single-line service lanes, shift 105k truckloads to rail

Merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern will create 10,000 single-line rail lanes, annually shifting 105,000 truckloads ...
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NS and CPKC are trying to iron out differences over Meridian Speedway

Norfolk Southern told federal regulators this week that it hopes to smooth over its dispute with Canadian Pacific Kansas City ...
Railway Age

Class I Briefs: BNSF, NS

BNSF celebrates Darigold’s new facility at its Certified Site in Pasco, Wash., and officially closes its 7,000th highway/rail ...
Yahoo Finance

Witness testifies freight car involved in NS train derailment was not inspected

Jason Cox, national representative of the Transportation Communications Union, testified at the National Transportation Safety Board’s hearing Friday on the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East ...
Railway Age

NTSB Issues Preliminary Reports on Three NS Derailment Investigations

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued preliminary reports on three ongoing Norfolk Southern (NS) derailments that occurred March 4, March 7 and March 9. On March 4, 2023, ...
Trains on MSN

UP and NS say their merger will take 2 million trucks off the highway annually

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern say their proposed transcontinental merger will take more than 2 million trucks off the ...
Morning Journal

Ancora calls NS derailment response ‘a failure’

EAST PALESTINE — On Sunday, Ancora Holdings issued a presentation laying its case for a takeover of Norfolk Southern (NS) and what it called “urgent need for leadership, safety and strategy changes” — ...