‘21st Century Steam’ Launches Labor Day Weekend NORFOLK, Va., and CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – September will mark the return of steam to Norfolk Southern rails as Norfolk Southern Corporation and Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum launch a limited schedule of steam locomotive passenger excursions Labor Day weekend. The excursion program, “21st Century Steam,” will operate two trains each [...]

  CSX Updates Status of Hurricane Irene Impact August 27, 2011 2 p.m. — As Hurricane Irene makes her way up the East Coast, CSX continues to make preparations ahead of the storm and, where safe to do so, is inspecting tracks and signals in the Mid-Atlantic coastal region. Service to customers behind the hurricane [...]

  Having both the usual radio scanner and our ATCS system, we’re able to closely monitor activities on the CSX Pittsburgh Sub, as well as on our neighboring Norfolk Southern mainlines. Shortly after Noon we noted a CSX work extra which sounded a little unusual.  Your Innkeeper captured this LORAM train as it passed The [...]

  U.S. roads’ carloads, intermodal loads climbed in week No. 33, AAR says   August’s second-last full week was a relatively good one for U.S. railroads. During the week ending Aug. 20, they originated 300,521 carloads, up 1.1 percent, and 238,680 intermodal loads, up 1 percent compared with volumes from the same 2010 period, according [...]