Last year, Norfolk Southern Corp. completed $1 billion worth of infrastructure improvements. The projects were designed to enhance the safety, speed, and reliability of rail operations.
“The entire engineering team at Norfolk Southern is deeply committed to safely delivering exceptional, cost-effective solutions that meet the needs of our customers,” Ed Boyle, engineering vice president, said. “Once again, our outstanding people in maintenance of way and structures, program maintenance, communications and signals, bridges and structures, and design and construction have achieved results in 2024 that were on time and within budget, demonstrating their unwavering dedication to excellence and operational efficiency.”
Safety infrastructure projects include 313 grade crossing protection warning systems installed.
Track, bridges, and structures projects include 121 bridges replaced or rehabilitated, 104 installed culverts, 30,480 bridge ties and 558 track miles of rail replaced, 4,202 miles of track surfaced, and 2.1 million installed cross ties.
Communications and signals projects include 180 replaced switch machines, 23 signal cut-ins and three replaced classification yard speed controllers.
Norfolk Southern Corp. operates a 22-state freight transportation network and delivers approximately 7 million carloads annually. The intermodal network connects to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as major ports on the Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico.