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Three Commercial Place Website: http://www.nscorp.com Norfolk Southern Corporation is a Norfolk, VA-based company that controls a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company. The railway operates approximately 21,300 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and Ontario, Canada, serves all major eastern ports and connects with rail partners in the West and Canada, linking customers to markets around the world. The company owns or leases 3,755 locomotives and 100,229 freight cars. Norfolk Southern is North America's largest rail carrier of automotive parts and finished vehicles. Norfolk Southern provides comprehensive logistics services and offers the most extensive intermodal network in the East. In 2005, the company reported record revenues of $8.5 billion and net income of $1.2 billion. History Norfolk and Western Railway is the product of more than 200 railroad mergers spanning a century and a half. Beginning in 1838 with a nine-mile line from Petersburg, VA, to City Point, VA, NW grew to a system serving 14 states and a province of Canada on more than 7,000 miles of road. Southern Railway is the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined since the 1830s. The nine-mile South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Co., Southern's earliest predecessor line, was chartered in December 1827 and ran the nation's first regularly scheduled passenger train - the wood-burning "Best Friend of Charleston" - out of Charleston, SC, on Christmas Day 1830. By 1833, its 136-mile line to Hamburg, SC, was the longest in the world. In 1976, Conrail is created as the Rail Revitalization and Regulatory Reform (4R) Act is signed into law. Government combines bankrupt Penn Central, Lehigh & Hudson River, Erie Lackawanna, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley, Reading and the ailing Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. April 1 is CR's first day of operation. At its formation, CR is nation's largest railroad with 34,000 miles of track in 16 states, 96,000 employees, 4,600 locomotives and 152,000 freight cars. In 1982, Norfok Western and Southern Railway create Norfolk Southern Corp. In 1998, Norfolk Southern would acquire Conrail. Benefits Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage. We offer comprehensive and affordable medical
coverage through a network of physicians, facilities and other
providers. Your cost depends on your benefit choices. You choose
the plan that best fits your lifestyle. Updated November 17, 2006 |