Newburgh and South Shore Railroad Archives

NSR deploys Ohio’s first electric locomotive.

November 10, 2023
Short Lines & Regionals

NSR Deploys Ohio’s First All-Battery Electric Locomotive

OmniTRAX on Nov. 9 announced that its affiliate Newburgh & South Shore Railroad (NSR) has deployed its first all-battery electric locomotive. According to OmniTRAX, the new AMPS Traction G9—the first electric locomotive

CSX and subsidiary Quality Carriers employees recently assembled 5,000 care packages for U.S. troops stationed in Eastern Europe, who have been mobilized in response to the conflict in Ukraine. (Photograph Courtesy of CSX)

July 05, 2022
Freight

ESG Briefs: CN/CP, CSX, OmniTRAX

CN and Canadian Pacific (CP) have earned spots on the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada list for 2022. Also, care packages from CSX, in partnership with Operation Gratitude, are headed to U.S. active-duty service members in Eastern Europe; and Newburgh & South Shore Railroad (NSR), a managed affiliate of OmniTRAX, presented a community donation to a Cleveland, Ohio-area fire department in honor of Charter Steel.

The Federal Railroad Administration-compliant battery-electric unit (pictured) that OmniTrax subsidiary NSR purchased from AMPS Traction offers 1,700 gross horsepower and 80,000 pound tractive effort.

March 03, 2022
Locomotives

NSR Acquires Battery-Electric Switcher

Newburgh and South Shore Railroad (NSR) has purchased an AMPS Traction GP9-based battery-electric switcher for service in Ohio, parent company OmniTRAX reported on March 2.

The shipper honorees “are true leaders in their industries, using best practices and the latest technologies to ensure a safe and high-performing supply chain,” OmniTRAX Chief Commercial Officer Peter Touesnard said.

January 21, 2021
Short Lines & Regionals

OmniTRAX Honors 35 Safe Shippers

Denver-based OmniTRAX has presented awards to 35 short line railroad customers that shipped or received “qualifying loaded cars with no accidental releases in the previous year.”

March 25, 2015
News

OmniTRAX’s Billie Johnson earns ASLRRA top safety award

Billie Johnson, General Manager at OmniTRAX Inc. short lines Newburgh & South Shore Railroad and Northern Ohio & Western Railway is the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s (ASLRRA) 2014 Safety Person of the Year. Johnson will receive the award at the ASLRRA Convention in Orlando March 28-30, 2015.