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Norfolk Southern Corp. - Rail
Transport - Category Directory
(757)
629-2680
Three
Commercial Place
Norfolk, VA 23510
www.nscorp.com
Sales
$6.5 billion
Business Description
As of Dec. 31, 2003, NS' railroads operated approximately 21,500 miles of
road in the states of Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi,
Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and
in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
In
addition to the lines leased from Conrail previously discussed, NS'
railroads have major leased lines between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chattanooga,
Tennessee, and operate over trackage owned by North Carolina Railway Company
(NCRR). The Cincinnati-Chattanooga lease, covering about 335 miles of road,
expires in 2026, and is subject to an option to extend the lease for an
additional 25 years, at terms to be agreed upon. The trackage rights over
NCRR cover approximately 315 miles of road under an agreement through 2014
with the right to renew for two additional 15-year periods.
NS' railroads carry raw materials, intermediate products and finished goods
primarily in the Southeast, East and Midwest, and via interchange with other
rail carriers, to and from the rest of the United States and parts of
Canada. They also transport overseas freight through several Atlantic and
Gulf Coast ports. Atlantic ports served by NS include: Norfolk, Virginia;
Morehead City, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah and
Brunswick, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Baltimore, Maryland;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/Camden, New Jersey; Wilmington, Delaware; and the
Ports of New York/New Jersey. Gulf Coast ports served include Mobile,
Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana.
The lines of NS' railroads reach most of the larger industrial and trading
centers of the Southeast, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic region and Midwest.
Chicago, Norfolk, Detroit, Atlanta, Metropolitan New York City,
Jacksonville, Kansas City (Missouri), Baltimore, Buffalo, Charleston,
Cleveland, Columbus, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Greensboro, Charlotte
and Savannah are among the leading centers originating and terminating
freight traffic on the system. In addition, haulage arrangements with
connecting carriers allow NS' railroads to provide single-line service to
and from additional markets, including haulage provided by Florida East
Coast Railway Company to serve southern and eastern Florida, including the
port cities of Miami, West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale; and haulage
provided by The Kansas City Southern Railway Company to provide
transcontinental intermodal service via a connection with the Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company. Service is provided to New England,
including the Port of Boston, via haulage, trackage rights and interline
arrangements with Canadian Pacific Railway Company and Guilford
Transportation Industries. The system's lines also reach many individual
industries, electric generating facilities, mines (in western Virginia,
eastern Kentucky, southern and northern West Virginia and western
Pennsylvania), distribution centers, transload facilities and other
businesses located in smaller communities in its service area. The traffic
corridors carrying the heaviest volumes of freight include those from the
New York City area to Chicago (via Allentown and Pittsburgh); Chicago to
Jacksonville (via Cincinnati, Chattanooga and Atlanta); Appalachian coal
fields of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky to Norfolk, Virginia and
Sandusky, Ohio; Cleveland to Kansas City; and Knoxville to Chattanooga.
Chicago, Memphis, Sidney/Salem, New Orleans, Kansas City, Buffalo, St. Louis
and Meridian are major gateways for interterritorial system traffic.
Triple Crown Operations - Until April 1993, NS' intermodal subsidiary,
Triple Crown Services, Inc. (TCS), offered intermodal service using
RoadRailer® equipment and domestic containers. RoadRailer® units are
enclosed vans that can be pulled over highways in tractor-trailer
configuration and over the rails by locomotives. On April 1, 1993, the
business, name and operations of TCS were transferred to Triple Crown
Services Company (TCSC), a partnership in which subsidiaries of NS and
Conrail are equal partners. From April 1, 1993, to June 1, 1999, the
revenues of TCSC were not consolidated with the results of NS; however,
effective June 1, 1999, NS gained control of TCSC and, therefore, now
includes TCSC's results in its consolidated financial statements. TCSC
offers door-to-door intermodal service using RoadRailer® equipment in major
traffic corridors, including those between the Midwest and the Northeast,
the Midwest and the Southeast and the Midwest and Texas/Mexico.
COAL
TRAFFIC - Coal, coke and iron ore -- most of which is bituminous coal -- is
NS' railroads' largest commodity group as measured by revenues. The
railroads handled a total of 172 million tons in 2003, most of which
originated on NS' lines in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Kentucky. Revenues from coal, coke and iron ore accounted for about 23% of
NS' total railway operating revenues in 2003.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE TRAFFIC - General merchandise traffic is composed of
five major commodity groupings: automotive; chemicals; metals and
construction; agriculture, consumer products and government; and paper, clay
and forest products. The automotive group includes finished vehicles for
BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Isuzu,
Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Saab, Subaru,
Suzuki, Toyota and Volkswagen, and auto parts for Ford Motor Company,
General Motors, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota. The chemicals group includes
sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products, chlorine and bleaching
compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes and
municipal wastes. The metals and construction group includes steel, aluminum
products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, bricks and minerals.
The agriculture, consumer products and government group includes soybeans,
wheat, corn, fertilizer, animal and poultry feed, food oils, flour,
beverages, canned goods, sweeteners, consumer products, ethanol and items
for the military. The paper, clay and forest products group includes lumber
and wood products, pulpboard and paper products, woodfibers, woodpulp, scrap
paper and clay.
INTERMODAL TRAFFIC - The intermodal market consists of shipments moving in
trailers, domestic and international containers, and Roadrailer® equipment.
These shipments are handled on behalf of intermodal marketing companies,
international steamship lines, truckers and other shippers.
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