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

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Sent: 9/6/2013 3:24:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight  Time
Subj: [NSInfo] Bright colors to roll on Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt  Line 
Railroad



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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