Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark NS ) is an American Class 1 railway company. She is the lead company of the railway activities of the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The Norfolk Southern is next to the CSX Transportation is the most important railway companies east of the Mississippi River.
Corporate Structure
The company is Norfolk, Virginia. The route network comprises some 25,800 km (by track use rights 33,180 km ). The company has 3,912 owned and lease locomotives and 89 743 own and leased wagons. Main transport goods are coal and iron at 29% and container with 19% of the total volume. Sales in the rail sector is around 8 to 10 billion dollars.
The members, following formal or existing railway companies:
- Alabama Great Southern Railroad
- Camp Lejeune Railroad
- Central of Georgia Railroad
- Chesapeake Western Railway
- Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
- Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
- High Point, Randleman, Asheboro and Southern Railroad
- Interstate Railroad Company
- Mobile and Birmingham Railroad
- Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad
- North Carolina Midland Railroad
- South Western Railroad
- Southern Rail Terminals of North Carolina
- State University Railroad
- Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway
- Tennessee Railway
- Virginia and South Western Railway
- Yadkin Railroad
These companies are at the sole or dominant in possession of the Norfolk Southern Railway.
In the following railway company is part owner:
- Belt Railway Company of Chicago ( 25%)
- Kansas City Terminal Railway ( 8.33% )
- Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (40.64 %)
- Winston -Salem Southbound Railway ( 50%)
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis ( 14.29% )
- TTX Company ( 19.65% )
- Augusta and Summerville Railroad (50%)
- Central Transfer Railway and Storage Company (50%)
- North Charleston Terminal ( 33.33 %)
- Woodstock and Blocton Railway ( 50%)
- Chatham terminal (50%)
- Conrail Inc. (58%)
- Meridian Speedway ( 27.26 %)
- Pan Am Southern ( 50%)
In addition, the Norfolk Southern railway companies has leased the following:
- Cincinnati Southern Railway
- Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad ( weiterverpachtet to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad )
Additionally, the Company is still in the possession of some other companies from other sectors of the economy.
History
From the early 1960s, east of the Mississippi, a concentration process developed under the railways. In addition to the merger of the New York Central System and the Pennsylvania Railroad to Penn Central a merger of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad with the Norfolk and Western Railway was sought. This project was abandoned after the bankruptcy of the Penn Central and other railroads in the northeast on 22 April 1971.
The concentration process won the late 1970s once again ride when the CSX was formed as a merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line. In order to continue to compete with this company, were the two remaining largest railway companies in the eastern United States, Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway, forced to merge. In preparation for the merger, the former Norfolk Southern Railway was renamed in 1981 in Carolina and North Western Railway. On 1 June 1982, the Norfolk and Western Railway and the Southern Railway were united under the holding company Norfolk Southern Corporation. 31 December 1990, then merged the two companies to the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Early as the mid -1980s, Norfolk Southern began to be interested in a merger with Conrail. After Conrail, however, was in 1987 on the stock market, put you back these plans. Since 1996 Conrail merger talks with CSX began Norfolk Southern made a counter offer. In the following negotiations, CSX and Norfolk Southern agreed on a division of the company. On 8 June 1998, the Surface Transportation Board gave approval for the acquisition of 58 % of Conrail June 1, 1999. Means that the company has received, among others, access to New England and New York.
2005/2006 the Norfolk Southern agreed with the Kansas City Southern Railway, a joint venture over the distance from Meridian to Shreveport ( Meridian Speedway LLC). The KCS the route and contributes Norfolk Southern $ 300 million, are used to increase the capacity of the route. A similar business model has been in the creation of Pan Am Southern LLC. pursued. The Pan Am Railways has introduced the designated as Patriot Corridor line from Mechanicville Ayer in the company, while Norfolk Southern provides $ 140 million for the extension of the track capacity. At the same time, the Company thereby gains access to Boston. The main construction of the Company currently relate to the main traffic routes Port of Virginia (Norfolk ) to Chicago " Heartland Corridor" and New Orleans / Memphis North Jersey " Crescent Corridor". The routes will be extended for two-storeyed container trains.
Vehicle park
The Company has in its fleet of locomotives Electro-Motive Diesel and General Electric Transportation. This GE Dash 9- 40CW have 1090 copies, the largest share. More used types of larger quantities are EMD SD70, EMD SD70M, EMD SD70M -2, EMD SD40 -2, EMD GP38 -2, EMD SD60, GE ES40DC. The ES40DC and Dash 9- 40CW which are purpose built for the Norfolk Southern locomotives with reduced power of 2940 kW instead of 3235 kW.
The Norfolk Southern is also working with several low-emission Gen-Set locomotives, especially in shunting a. Here are four rail power RP20BD, two NRE 3GS21B, two rail power RP14BD, a Rail Power RP20CD, a NRE 3GS21C -DE and two Progress Rail PR43C. In addition, the testing of battery-powered Brookville BP -4 (NS No 999 ) is running.
For the business move, two and two EMD EMD F9PH F7B in a reminiscent of the finishes of the former Southern Railway freight train locomotives colors available.
In continuation of the excursions offered by the Southern Railway and the Norfolk & Western steam locomotives were to 1994 ( 1'C ) C2 ' h4 - Mallet locomotive N & W 1218 ( N & W class A), the 2'D2 ' h2 express locomotive N & W 611 ( N & W class J ) and the 1'D1'h2 SR 4501 ( SR- class Ms) in use.