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The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western , and the Southern Railway , it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999.
Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The South Carolina Canal & Rail Road was the SOU's earliest predecessor line. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. [18]
The Crescent Corridor is a railroad corridor operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS). The project, first proposed in 2007, and scheduled for completion by 2020, spans 13 states from New York to Louisiana. [1] [2] It is a private-public partnership between Norfolk Southern and the various state and federal governments. [2]
On June 23, 1997, CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide, and operate the assets of the 11,000-mile (18,000 km) Conrail, which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned ...
The Norfolk Southern Railway continued to improve the Lehigh Line into the 21st century. In 2014, Norfolk Southern purchased the former Delaware and Hudson line from Schenectady, New York, to Sunbury, Pennsylvania from Canadian Pacific. Prior to the acquisition, it had acquired trackage rights over the D&H in New York and Pennsylvania from CP ...
The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania.The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Rockville, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line.
The oldest piece of the line, from Suffern to Newburgh Junction in Woodbury, New York, opened in 1841 as part of the New York and Erie Rail Road. [1] Extensions opened to Port Jervis and Binghamton in 1848, [2] Owego in 1849, [3] and Dunkirk (leaving the Southern Tier Line at Hornell) in 1851. [4]
Heartland Corridor . The Heartland Corridor is a public-private partnership between the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and the Federal Highway Administration and three U.S. states to improve railroad freight operations.