Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car at the Manassas Railway Festival

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car will be on display on June 7 at the Manassas Heritage Railway Festival and will be open to the public free of charge from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
           
Viewed by more than 1.5 million people in several hundred cities since 1971, the rolling museum features interactive displays highlighting the Norfolk Southern transportation system. A locomotive simulator lets you be the engineer. Guests sit in the engineer’s seat inside a mock-up of a Norfolk Southern locomotive and operate throttle, brake, and horn. Computer-generated animation simulates successful delivery of a customer’s freight, with an important safety message built in.
 
Another display depicts a train-dispatching center, the nerve center of the railroad. It describes how Norfolk Southern keeps track of nearly 2,000 trains each day. The Exhibit Car portrays Norfolk Southern as a modern, safe, and customer-focused transportation network – the Thoroughbred of Transportation.
 
Norfolk Southern Corporation is one of the nation’s premier transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway subsidiary operates approximately 21,000 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port in the eastern United States, and provides superior connections to western rail carriers. NS operates the most extensive intermodal network in the East and is North America’s largest rail carrier of metals and automotive products.
 
The Manassas Heritage Railway Festival is held around the Old Town Manassas train depot and the Loy E. Harris Pavilion, and includes a variety of model train displays, live entertainment for adults and children, rides, and vendors of “railroadania”. Along with a Manassas and the Railroad exhibit that will be on display at the Manassas Museum, this is truly a day of family fun, and a chance to learn about the rich heritage of Manassas. Tickets for the VRE Excursion train to Clifton can be purchased in person at the Visitor’s Center in the Old Town train depot. Tickets are $6.00, and children under 2 years old are free. The visitor’s center is open 7 days a week from 9am until 5pm.

To find out more about the Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car, visit www.nscorp.com. For more information on the Railway Festival and other events in Old Town Manassas, visit the HMI website at www.visitmanassas.org.