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Norfolk Southern sale to Union Pacific to come with heavy Atlanta job losses
1+ day, 12+ hour ago A proposed merger with Union Pacific would result in a heavy loss of jobs at Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern's headquarters, according to documents filed Friday outlining the deal. In their 7,000-page merger application to the Surface Transportation Board, the companies laid…...
Norfolk Southern got safer after Ohio crash. Unions warn of merger risk.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago In the two and half years since Norfolk Southern's devastating train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the company has undergone what it calls a "safety transformation." The 2023 derailment was a wake-up call for Norfolk Southern and the industry. The crash,…...
Seven years after wooing Norfolk Southern, Atlanta may lose its HQ in merger
4+ mon, 3+ week ago Less than seven years ago, Georgia and Atlanta leaders celebrated a major coup: convincing Norfolk Southern to move its headquarters to Midtown Atlanta from Virginia. The railroad's then-CEO promised to create or relocate 850 jobs to a gleaming, $575 million building on…...
A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them
6+ mon, 2+ week ago The team carefully unearthed four skeletons, including one with a bullet in the spine, and three amputated legs. They quickly surmised the bones were actually from the Civil War, when a makeshift hospital operated nearby and treated gravely wounded Confederate…...