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Norfolk Southern plans to spend $2 billion for 2013 capital projects
Does positive train control mean we’ll hear nothing on our scanners any more?
And they are furloughing T&E employees???
And they are furloughing T&E employees???
It looks like NS has a lot of work to do. Now if our government (State and Federal) could somehow get some of the unemployed to pick up their checks at the NS employment office, it could be a win-win for all parties. Tax breaks for the RR’s , training and work for the unemployed. With thousands of workers available, NS and other RR’s could get a lot more done.
The “new locomotive service facility in Conway, PA” will probably be hard to see, even from a distance, unfortunately, given Conway Yard’s layout. It shows NS’s confidence, though, in continued heavy traffic on that line. On another note, the idea of public-private partnerships catches my interest as a effective way to make progress in tight financial times. Seems to me that joint projects like CREATE, the Crescent Corridor and the No. Carolina improvements are win-wins for both private enterprise and the public.
Save a few bucks to repair and repaint some of the rolling stock as most of it looks like a railroad in a third world country.
This is just not NS but most US railroads.
Save a few bucks to repair and repaint some of the rolling stock as most of it looks like a railroad in a third world country.
This is just not NS but most US railroads.
I Grow up With The N&W RR in the 1950s & 60s in Mingo Co. WV. Every Day they would get all the Coal up in Rockhouse creek and come out with a heavy coal load and on the way, they would stop at Elk creak to get filled up with water for the BIG Y Class Steam Engins.
It was so much fun every day when we could catch then befor they had leve out to the yard over in Willliasom WV. I still think of thouse days even when I see even the NS Trains now.
Now I live in Texas and I still drean of the days of the N&W heavy steam…
I Grow up With The N&W RR in the 1950s & 60s in Mingo Co. WV. Every Day they would get all the Coal up in Rockhouse creek and come out with a heavy coal load and on the way, they would stop at Elk creak to get filled up with water for the BIG Y Class Steam Engins.
It was so much fun every day when we could catch then befor they had leve out to the yard over in Willliasom WV. I still think of thouse days even when I see even the NS Trains now.
Now I live in Texas and I still drean of the days of the N&W heavy steam…
545 mil for 26 miles of track, thats a lot money.
W@ill any of this have any positive effect on Amtrak at all?