1. Norfolk Southern Locomotive Engineer Training

Partnering with chemical customersNorfolk Southern recognizes chemical customers that safely ship hazardous product on NS’ rail network.In 2015, NS presented 60 customers with its Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award for shipping 224,660 carloads of hazardous material without incident. These chemicals included crude petroleum, ethanol, fertilizers, and chemicals used to manufacture common household products – all vital to the U.S. Economy, but potentially dangerous if mishandled or leaked. As a common carrier, NS, like other U.S. Railroads, is required by federal law to offer transport of these materials.NS has presented the safety award since 1999 to customers who ship at least 1,000 tank carloads of hazardous material during a calendar year without incident.

To ensure safe transport, NS adheres to comprehensive federal rules covering hazmat transport and has adopted many voluntary safeguards that exceed government regulations. In addition, NS works closely with chemical customers, including providing on-site training in safe rail-shipping practices. Accidents involving releasesAcross NS’ 22-state system, four rail cars involved in three separate accidents released hazardous material during the year. No injuries or long-term environmental impacts occurred. In each case, NS environmental management employees, in partnership with regulatory authorities and licensed contractors, ensured that the spill sites were secured, cleaned, and remediated.Following is a snapshot of the accident releases:.In April, a train operating near Trenton, S.C., derailed after striking a downed tree on the tracks, causing the release of approximately 61,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate from two covered hopper cars. Ammonium nitrate is an important component of many fertilizer mixtures.In July, a tank car leaked about 600 gallons of sodium hydroxide solution after being struck by another tank car as it rolled off of the “hump” track at NS’ Norris Yard in Birmingham, Ala.

The incident was linked to a power failure. Norfolk Southern has participated in the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® Partnership Program since 1996. In 2015, NS earned another three-year recertification for meeting the program’s strict membership standards. That includes demonstration of a culture across all levels of the company to continually identify, reduce, and manage process-safety risks.NS’ participation in this voluntary program reflects the company’s commitment to work across business sectors to continually improve performance in environmental, health, safety, and security programs involving transport of chemicals. Partnering with communitiesA central focus of Norfolk Southern’s public safety efforts is participation in the voluntary Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response, or TRANSCAER program.

In 2015, employees in NS’ Safety and Environmental Department provided training through TRANSCAER for 4,792 emergency responders, government officials, members of the media, and others in 18 states to help their communities better prepare for potential hazmat incidents.The training included classroom seminars, hands-on sessions with rolling tank cars, table-top simulations, full-scale drills, and exercises at training centers operated by NS and the Association of American Railroads. In addition, NS was instrumental in developing the new AskRail ™ mobile app, which provides real-time rail information to first responders.A highlight was operation of DuPont training tank cars in a partnership with the chemical company. The tank cars stopped in 25 cities for three days each to train emergency responders. Crude-by-rail training continues in 2015In 2015, Norfolk Southern sponsored training for 80 emergency responders at a three-day crude-by-rail safety course at the Association of American Railroads’ Security and Emergency Response Training Center in Pueblo, Colo.

In addition, NS sponsored training for 10 emergency responders attending the railroad’s course on tank car emergency response.Including 2014, NS has invested around $800,000 in training nearly 220 first responders to safely respond to potential incidents involving crude oil transport. NS sponsored emergency responders from communities where crude oil trains operate, including responders from Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. NS safety train reflects commitment to communitiesIn 2015, Norfolk Southern launched its Operation Awareness & Response program to cultivate and strengthen relationships with local first responders – and to educate the public about the economic benefits of moving hazardous materials by rail. The program provides classroom, online, and field training on hazardous materials transport and useful information about rail operations.In April 2016, NS rolled out the program’s centerpiece: a hazmat safety train. The company also launched a new website,The safety train includes a locomotive painted in honor of emergency responders with insignia recognizing police, fire, and emergency services; two boxcars converted into classrooms; and four styles of tank cars.

New 9-1-1 locomotive honors first respondersIn June 2015, Norfolk Southern commissioned the NS 9-1-1 locomotive in the nation’s capital to honor emergency first responders. The unit features the Maltese Cross of fire services, the Emergency Medical Services’ “Star of Life,” and the police shield. It also features the logo for TRANSCAER. NS’ two largest outreach efforts in 2015 were its “Whistle Stop” train trips and the “Train Your Brain” campaign, featuring Brainy, the railroad’s pink safety ambassador. The railroad’s Safety and Environmental Department partnered with Operation Lifesaver, a national nonprofit safety organization, on the Whistle Stop tours.Whistle Stop: NS operated two of these three-day train trips, with the theme, “See Tracks? Think Train!” One stopped in seven cities in South Carolina and North Carolina; the other stopped in six Ohio cities.

The trains gave rides to key stakeholders, including state lawmakers; police, fire, and emergency medical responders; civic leaders; and city and county council members. NS and Operation Lifesaver representatives used the outings as an opportunity to build relationships and discuss safety messages the guest passengers could take into their communities.Train Your Brain: This campaign targeted 11 communities in south-central Georgia along a corridor from Macon to Valdosta. In 2014, NS trains were involved in 45 collisions at grade crossings in Georgia that resulted in six deaths and 20 injuries.Outreach included distributing branded homework folders and rail safety activity sheets to 71 elementary schools and handing out branded driver’s education kits to 18 high schools. Brainy appeared at high school football games, festivals, and other community events. NS added a page to its www.Brainysworld.com website that allows users to make a “Railroad Smart Pledge” commitment to loved ones.To complement the new “i am Coming Home” safety message for employees, NS launched a “Cross carefully, get home safely” campaign featuring roadside billboards, gasoline pump “toppers,” and ads in movie theater lobbies, among other advertising.

Think trains! Highway-rail incidentsIn 2015, highway-rail grade crossing incidents involving Norfolk Southern trains declined by 12 percent. These incidents involve motorists and passing trains, most often occurring when motorists ignore flashing warning lights at railroad crossings or drive around crossing gates. Two-thirds of the incidents occurred in six of NS’ 22 operating states: Indiana (with the most, at 54), Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.# of highway-rail incidents73328# of train miles (millions).4Incidents per million train miles4.43.93.63.93.4Walking on tracks is trespassing: Trespasser incidentsWhile trespasser injuries on Norfolk Southern property declined 9 percent overall in 2015, the number of fatalities involving trespassers increased 21 percent. Much of NS’ public outreach around rail safety is to make people aware that the company’s train tracks are private property and that walking on them is dangerous and illegal.Total Trespasser Injuries48134Total Trespasser Fatalities2.

Actively engaging communitiesEmployees across Norfolk Southern’s system play a role in educating the public about safety around trains and railroad tracks. For example, in Alabama, members of a local safety and service committee sponsored a family day cookout for the Collinsville community in a park near NS tracks. The committee’s chairman, who volunteers for Operation Lifesaver, taught a class of elementary school students about railroad safety.“We pass through these communities every day, and you want to make it the best you possibly can for them,” said Jeremy Pate, a locomotive engineer based in Birmingham. “You don’t want to take anything away from them.

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Norfolk Southern Locomotive Engineer Training

Working for Norfolk Southern can be a wonderful thing. The pay and benefits are great. Depending on which department that you work in constitutes your Work/Life balance. I can only speak of the Transportation department where you may have little outside life and family time. You may miss out on some quality family moments but being able to provide a good and quality life for your family is no problem. Management is the only issue that I've seen. They don't really value their employees like they should.

I've always believed that if you take care of your people, then your people will take care of you (your company). Other than that, a great place to work.

Where else can you work with Big Toys. Norfolk folk Southern has an attitude that you are expendable and if you break they will replace you.they will spend countless hours hiding in the weeds trying to fire you, they will do everything they can to make your home life as non existent as possible. You work 12 hour days you come home you sleep you shower and you wait for the railroad to call you back to work. You'll spend a majority of your career on call 247 you will get a to our call and you will have to be at work regardless of what is going on in your life.After 18 years of this sh!+I have had enough! Unhealthy eat/sleep schedules. Tons of mental stress having no schedule of when you’ll work or what you’ll be home for.

Miss family events, friends, childerens sporting events, etc, etc. Get your mandatory 10hrs rest time after 40hrs gone and may go right back for another 40. Or get your rest and then possibly get called 10-12hrs after when you are tired again and ready to go back to sleep. So next time, maybe you stay up a while in order to time your rest for a train you might catch later but get called by surprise on something that came out of nowhere. Now you work a 12 hr train and have been up 36hrs.