Fwd: [NSInfo] Bright colors to roll on Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad

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Sept. 6, 2013
Bright colors to roll on Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad
NORFOLK, VA. – The Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad (NPBL), a
switching and terminal railroad that serves customers in Norfolk, Chesapeake,
and Portsmouth, Va., is celebrating its 115th anniversary this month with
receipt of a locomotive painted in the bright red-and-maroon colors used for
its first diesel locomotives in the 1950s.
For many years the NPBL, jointly owned by the two Class I railroads that
serve the region, Norfolk Southern and CSX, has been using solid black
locomotives with simple NPBL stenciling. NPBL leases their locomotives from NS,
who designed the color scheme and painted NPBL 5260, a GP 38-2. This work
was done at NS’ Chattanooga Diesel Shop and will be delivered to NPBL in the
upcoming weeks. The inspiration for the vintage color scheme was NS’
wildly popular Heritage Locomotives, a fleet of 20 locomotives that were painted
last year in colors based on NS’ predecessor railroads.
NPBL owns 34 miles of railroad and has trackage rights over 27.35 miles on
Norfolk Southern. Its 33 employees serve 25 customers in South Hampton
Roads.
_Norfolk Southern Corporation_
(http://phx.corporate-ir.net/Tearsheet.ashx?c=69040) (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation’s premier transportation
companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway Company subsidiary operates approximately
20,000 _route miles_ (http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/map.html) in
22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port
in the eastern United States, and provides efficient connections to other
rail carriers. Norfolk Southern operates the most extensive intermodal
network in the East and is a major transporter of coal, automotive, and
industrial products.

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Contacts:
Norfolk Southern: _Robin Chapman_ (mailto:robin.chapman at nscorp.com) ,
757-629-2710 (robin.chapman at nscorp.com)
NPBL: _Cannon Moss_ (mailto:cannon.moss at nscorp.com) , 757-271-1756
(_cannon.moss at nscorp.com_ (mailto:cannon.moss at nscorp.com) )

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