Extreme weather causes outages, delays on Norfolk Southern, CSX networks

Norfolk Southern Railway crews are working around the clock to fully restore service that has been down due to severe flooding in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and eastern Ohio.

NS teams are working to safely restore service to Mainline 1 and 2 west of Williamson, West Virginia. Both are out of service due to an additional washout that occurred yesterday morning, NS officials said in a customer service alert. The timeline for full-service restoration remains unknown. 

Meanwhile, CSX announced in a customer advisory that its teams are responding to the impact of extreme weather on its network. On the heels of deadly flash flooding in the South, a powerful cross-country storm brought plunging temperatures, ice and snow, impacting operations across multiple regions.

CSX said the following regions have experienced disruptions due to downed power lines, affected switches and other related issues:

• Northeast: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cumberland, Selkirk and Syracuse; as well as Russell, Kentucky, to Hinton, Kentucky;

• Midwest: Avon, Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville; and

• Southwest: Bruceton, Memphis, Montgomery and Nashville.

In the southern region, Waycross is managing higher-than-normal traffic, which may cause some delays, CSX officials said.