Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Division realignment

NS will realign the following regions and divisions

Northern Region
    Keystone Division- (former Pittsburgh & Harrisburg Divisions)
    Great Lakes Division (former Dearborn & Lake (Ft. Wayne and east) Divisions
Central Region
     Heartland Division (fomer Illinois & Lake (west of Ft. Wayne and Peru In.) Divisions
     Blue Ridge Division (former Pocahontas & Piedmont Divisions)
Southern Region
     Georgia Division (unchanged)
     Alabama Division (unchanged)

When u dont know what you're doing, rearrange the deck chairs.

Effective when? I asked my NS manager friend and first he has heard of it.

Correction on the Southern Region
      Gulf Division- former Alabama Div.
      Coastal Division- former Georgia Div.

pdt Wrote:
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> When u dont know what you're doing, rearrange the
> deck chairs.

You are right about that.  NS certainly has a "dynamic" strategic vision when it comes to operations.  These NS divisions seem to change/consolidate/break up every six months.  Let me guess what is coming next - they will move dispatchers out of the Network Operations Center in Atlanta into regional dispatching centers at each of the three region headquarters cities.

Heartland Division has a Wabash type ring to it.

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Any idea as to where the main office of each new division and region will be located?

Thank you in advance.

PRR_4859 Wrote:
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> Any idea as to where the main office of each new
> division and region will be located?
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> Thank you in advance.

Blue Ridge Division would probably stay in Roanoke.  They already left the old Virginia Division office building downtown (it's for sale) and moved into the Roanoke Terminal office near Shaffers Crossing.  And of course the present Pocahontas Division is a consolidation of the old Pocahontas Division headquartered in Bluefield, WV, and the Virginia Division.

Edited to add - Aren't the Regional offices in Atlanta?

Jim



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Déjà vu! The Coastal Division is reborn. 

"I asked my NS manager friend and first he has heard of it."


There is a lot of irony in that sentence right there !

Bill Miller
Galt, ON

Railroads have been doing this for years. Some big RRs have changed divisions and districts so many times in the last 150 years that you would be quite a historian if you could keep track of it all and provide a time line with name changes and movement of boundries.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/20 17:09 by wabash2800.

What, exactly, does a division do these days?

They got Hertiage diesels.  So next areHeritage Divisions!

Micro Manage each other, paperwork for PSR and FRA. Stress over stock price. Snitch.

Just got back from 2 days in  Harrisburg; the unofficial feedback from NS employees is that the Keystone office will remain in Harrisburg, and the change takes effect November 1.  If I find anything different I will post it.

Makes sense, supposedly they are paying a lot for the rent in Foster Plaza in Greentree.  Does NS own the building in Harrisburg?

Heartland Division, eh?

 

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I guess it most be official then that Kansas City is the Heartland of America.  NS Heartland Divn terminates there. Union Pacific's Heartland Division is headquartered at Kansas City. BNSF  Heartland Division runs through KC. I think it is headquartered in Lincoln.