Norfolk-based Norfolk Southern Corp. (NS) is moving its Roanoke distribution center and locomotive shop operations to Pennsylvania, the company announced Tuesday, affecting a total of 104 employees in ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Norfolk Southern announced major changes to two of its Roanoke operations on Tuesday. The company will close its Roanoke Distribution Center and the transfer both the work and positions ...

Norfolk Southern is closing its historic, 137-year-old Locomotive Shop in Roanoke, Va., transferring all locomotive work to its Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pa. NS predecessor railroad Norfolk & Western ...

Norfolk Southern plans to close its heavy-repair locomotive shop in Roanoke, Va., in May and transfer the work done there to Altoona’s Juniata Locomotive Shop. The company will offer the 85 mechanical ...

Only a handful of employees remain at the Norfolk Southern Locomotive Shop in Roanoke, with most having accepted buyouts after the company announced the The official closure date was May 15 for those ...

Bowen worked for eight years in the Norfolk Southern locomotive shop until he was laid off in January. It is sad to see Norfolk Southern abandoning a town it had such a huge role in building. While ...

ALTOONA, PA. (WJAC) — Norfolk Southern announced the closure of its Roanoke Distribution Center Tuesday and said work and positions will be transferred to the Juniata Locomotive shop in Altoona.

Today is a red-letter day in the history of Roanoke. Today is the last official day for Norfolk Southern’s locomotive shop — once the economic engine that powered Roanoke. Founded in 1881 as the ...

ROANOKE, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp. says it has furloughed approximately 130 employees at its locomotive shop in Roanoke, Virginia. News outlets report an International Brotherhood of Electrical ...

Norfolk Southern says it will close a locomotive maintenance facility and a locomotive parts distribution center in Roanoke, Virginia. The closure will impact 104 jobs. The Roanoke Times reported ...

The Roanoke Shops have been in operation about as long as Roanoke has been a city. "It has had a wonderful reputation," said Bev Fitzpatrick, former Executive Director of the Virginia Museum of ...

Roanoke was born a railroad town. Once known as Big Lick with a population of a few hundred people, the small community on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia was ...