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...Tankers in a 149-car Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride caught fire and derailed after an overheating wheel bearing went undetected until too late....
...But Norfolk Southern’s detour from the business pages to the front page has damaged the railroad and the wider industry. “I don’t think it’s an enormous financial hit,” Hatch said....
...After years of cost cutting, operating margins at big rail companies have peaked. Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s valuations reflect this....
...It marks the latest effort to shake up a structure among the big railroads in the US and Canada that has been unchanged since CSX and Norfolk Southern — the two big operators in the eastern US — took over...
...Secondly, Lex reported on investors Trillium Asset Management and Impact Shares calling on railroad companies Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to offer paid sick leave to eligible workers....
...Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern both say they move a ton of freight 444 miles on a single gallon of diesel. The industry continues to invest to improve its sustainability....
...Norfolk Southern, told investors....
...During that woeful stretch, Ackman also failed to win shareholder challenges against railroad Norfolk Southern and payroll provider ADP, signifying diminishing effectiveness as an activist....
...The last big deal occurred in 1999, when CSX and Norfolk Southern took over and divided Conrail between themselves....
...Retention is becoming “increasingly challenging”, however, said Cynthia Sanborn, chief operating officer of Norfolk Southern, who said the railroad operator had seen attrition accelerating for the past two...
...Whoever wins the Canadian battle over Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the seven Class 1 railways that haul US freight, will pull off the first major rail deal since 1999, when CSX and Norfolk Southern...
...It is a change of direction for Canadian Pacific, rebuffed in two public courtships of rivals, first of CSX and then of Norfolk Southern. Both concentrated on the US north-east....
...Canadian Pacific tried to acquire eastern US railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern in recent years but both attempts were blocked partly over concerns that the deals would not win regulatory approval....
...The Dow Jones Transportation Average, for example, which includes economic bellwethers such as shipping behemoth FedEx and railroad operator Kansas City Southern, slid into a technical correction on Friday...
...In January, railroad company Norfolk Southern added a discretion to executives’ 2020 bonus plans to ensure they would get paid even as the pandemic badly hit its business....
...Under Ackman’s new regime, the Canadian operator unsuccessfully approached US rival CSX, and then Norfolk Southern, about potential mergers in 2014 and 2016....
...(FT) Railroad deal is the biggest of the year Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $28.9bn, including debt, in the largest takeover so far this year....
...such as CSX and Norfolk Southern....
...Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and Kansas City Southern — the other big listed US railroads — have since taken precision methods aboard....
...Not to be left out, Norfolk Southern, which will report first-quarter results next week, rose 1.2 per cent and eyed a fresh record high on its peers’ upbeat views....
...Rising traffic, higher prices and lower tax propelled the Norfolk Southern railroad to record profits in the third quarter....
...CSX’s eastern rival Norfolk Southern disclosed Wednesday it would adopt precision railroading, meaning a majority of large North American freight rail companies has now embraced it....
...On Wednesday, rival Norfolk Southern delivered similar results with quarterly coal revenues up 32 per cent....
...Mr Moorman arrived at Amtrak last September after serving as head of the freight railroad Norfolk Southern. He helped recruit Mr Anderson, Amtrak added....
...Consolidation has left the US with two main railway companies east of the Mississippi river — CSX and Norfolk Southern — and their networks only partially overlap....
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