First is the ability and willing- ness of Norfolk Southern people to get the job done. When customers needed us at a rate that surpassed all our predic- tions, our people stepped up and provided service for the business our shippers brought us. We were able to handle increases of 8.8 ...
on the Southern side of Hampton Roads, and Norfolk, a rapidly growing Southern metropolis, there has been developed, in the heart of a rich, farm-trucking region, an attractive Negro community, calledTitustown, in which all the people own their own homes and not a single renter is found....
Norfolk Southern remained relatively profitable through the postwar period, carrying on for the next three decades until the Southern purchased it on the first day of 1974. It then merged the Carolina & Northwestern Railway into its new subsidiary. Interestingly, when the Southern and Norfolk & Wes...
specific operations that go into the line's customer-oriented approach, including its vast intermodal network. Along with each of Norfolk Southern's eleven operating divisions, this book offers a close look at motive power, a wealth of colour photographs, and a specially commissioned system map. ...