Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / The Norfolk Southern SD60I locomotive gifted to the Penn State Altoona Rail Transportation Engineering program sits in the Curry Rail Services yard in ...

Norfolk Southern has agreed to give one of its unions the paid sick days it demanded for members in negotiations last year, and is in talks to grant sick days to its other unions as well.

Rail Transportation Engineering instructor Jon Hileman (center) demonstrates brake shoe replacement on Penn State Altoona’s EMD SD60I locomotive to students.

President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies to continue holding Norfolk Southern accountable for its February derailment in eastern Ohio and appoint a FEMA official to oversee East Palestine’s ...