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NTSB to FRA: Require Audio and Image Recorders on Locomotives
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board makes the following recommendations to the Federal Railroad Administration: Require the installation, in all controlling locomotive cabs and cab car operating compartments, of crash- and fire-protected inward- and outward-facing audio and image recorders capable of providing recordings to verify that train crew actions are in accordance with rules and procedures that are essential to safety as well as train operating conditions.
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Norfolk Southern’s Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility Is Awarded $52.5 Million Tiger Grant From U.S. Department of Transportation
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern’s (NYSE: NSC) planned Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility was awarded $52.5 million from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program. In July 2009, Norfolk Southern announced that it intended to construct a new intermodal terminal in Rossville, Tenn., as part of the railroad’s multi-state $2.5 billion Crescent Corridor program of projects to establish a high-speed intermodal freight rail route linking the Gulf Coast and the Northeast. “Because of its strategic location and the growing intermodal demands in the Southeast, the Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility will create jobs, eliminate long-haul trucks from highways,
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Norfolk Southern’s Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility is awarded $52.5 million TIGER grant from U.S. Department of Transportation
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern’s planned Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility was awarded $52.5 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program. In July 2009, Norfolk Southern announced that it intended to construct a new intermodal terminal in McCalla, Ala., adjacent to the Jefferson Metropolitan Park at McCalla, as part of the railroad’s multi-state $2.5 billion Crescent Corridor program of projects to establish a high-speed intermodal freight rail route linking the Gulf Coast and the Northeast. “Because of its strategic location and the growing intermodal demands in the Southeast, the Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility will create jobs,
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Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor is Awarded $105 Million TIGER Grant From U.S. Department of Transportation
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor Intermodal Freight Program of Projects was awarded $105 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program. In September 2009, lead state Pennsylvania, joined by Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia, submitted an application to USDOT for a $300 million TIGER grant to help improve Norfolk Southern’s rail lines and facilities between the Gulf Coast and the Northeast. Although the award represents a shortfall from the original TIGER request, it will enable NS and its partners to begin construction of several previously announced Crescent Corridor projects, while delaying other elements
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Norfolk Southern Foundation Awards $5.7 Million in 2009
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Foundation, the charitable giving affiliate of Norfolk Southern Corp., awarded grants worth more than $5.7 million to nonprofit charitable organizations in 2009. The grants included $1.47 million in employee matching gifts in support of 535 organizations. Grants other than matching gifts went to 329 organizations in Norfolk Southern’s operating territory. The Foundation contributed to 75 United Way campaigns plus other health and human services nonprofits ($1,600,300), educational institutions ($1,100,587), cultural and arts groups ($1,145,478), and civic, community, and environmental organizations ($402,750). Among the largest recipients were the United Ways in Norfolk and Roanoke, Va., and Atlanta; National Merit Scholarship Corporation, Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia