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<DIV>The following is from the online edition of <EM>Railway Age</EM> magazine
for today and represents an unprecedented streak of safety awards for any
railroad:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>NS grabs 20th consecutive Harriman
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Prompt="Feature1 text:" translate="no" width="50">For the 20th year in a row,
Norfolk Southern has won the 2008 E.H. Harriman Gold Award for Group A,
recognized for the best employee safety record among line-haul railroads whose
employees worked 15 million employee-hours or more each year. Within Group B,
comprised of line-haul railroads whose employees worked four-to-15 million
employee-hours annually, the gold went to Kansas City Southern Railway, KCS's
third year in a row. Among Group C participants, railroads whose employees
worked less than four million employee-hours during the award period, the gold
award went to the Willamette & Pacific Railroad. In Group S&T, for
switching and terminal companies, the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
took the award for gold for the second consecutive
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