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Rail News Home Union Pacific Railroad 2/2/2021 Rail News: Union Pacific Railroad
The Manufacturing Institute (MI), the workforce development and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers, recently announced a three-year partnership with Union Pacific Railroad to shrink the workforce gender gap by encouraging more women and young people to pursue modern industry careers.The $3 million grant from Union Pacific will fund a new initiative called Careers on Track. The initiative will support workforce development and career solutions for women and will include creating a digital STEM curriculum, a virtual 3D-mapping STEM experience and a STEM micro-grant program for women.The Institute will also leverage existing programs, such as Heroes MAKE America, the STEP Women's Initiative and its youth engagement platform, to launch a digital campaign to bring awareness to the workforce gender gap and inspire the next generation of workers."There are nearly 500,000 job openings right now in manufacturing and millions more expected over the next decade, and closing the gender gap is a critical part of meeting this incredible need. That's why we are excited to work with a partner like Union Pacific that shares our vision of supporting the women's workforce of tomorrow while advancing the women's workforce of today," said MI Executive Director Carolyn Lee. 

Rail News Home Norfolk Southern Railway 1/29/2021 Rail News: Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway today announced it assisted 86 businesses in locating new or expanded facilities on its network in 2020.Across 18 states, NS customers invested $1.8 billion to open 70 new plants and expand 16 rail-served facilities. The industrial development is expected to create more than 2,960 customer jobs and generate over 54,300 carloads of new volume annually for NS."Despite the impacts of COVID-19, rail-served industrial development in our service area remained steady overall throughout 2020," said Kathleen Smith, NS vice president of business development and real estate, in a press release. "We have a solid pipeline of business development opportunity in 2021 beyond across our automotive and industrial product markets."The largest industrial development projects last year include a medical products production facility in Linwood, North Carolina; a paper-packaging products plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania; a roofing shingle manufacturing facility in Avery, Ohio; a grain-related expansion in Portage, Indiana; a steel mill expansion in Calvert, Alabama; and automotive-related projects in Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, Georgia and Pennsylvania.Over the past decade, NS has supported the location of 872 new or expanded facilities representing $58 billion in private investment along its network.