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1 Horsepower for America 2011 Ivestor ad Fiacial Aalyst Coferece Wedesday, Jue 8 Juiata Locomotive Shop

2 Juiata Locomotive Shop Stats The Juiata Locomotive Shop i Altooa, Pa., is the largest locomotive repair facility i North America, servicig NS fleet of 3,800 locomotives as well as locomotives for other freight ad passeger railroads. This moder heavy NS locomotive shops repair facility builds ad throughout the compay s overhauls locomotives 22-state etwork. ad compoets such as tractio motors, mai geerators ad alterators, diesel egies, ad power assemblies for use by smaller Juiata Locomotive Shop is comprised of 16 shops, ecompassig over 70 acres, 30 of which are uder roof. The shop is home to approximately 950 employees workig three shifts daily. I the last 10 years, the Juiata Locomotive Shop has posted cosecutive safety improvemets, ad i 2008, achieved 1 millio ma-hours reportable ijury free. Juiata had the uique distictio of assemblig locomotives for GE ad EMD simultaeously, ad i 2009 built the idustry s first batterypowered locomotive. Juiata has its ow power plat, providig all of the steam ad oe-third of the electricity the facility eeds daily.

3 Distictly Located The Juiata Locomotive Shop was origially costructed to build ad maitai steam locomotives for the Pesylvaia Railroad. It was retooled i the 1950s to hadle the rail idustry s coversio from steam to diesel-electric The Shop Complex locomotives. I the followig years it wet through several major upgrades to moderize the facility, icludig a $17 millio ivestmet by NS i the early 2000s to decrease the locomotive out-of-service time for egie overhaul from twety-oe to seve days. Erectig ad Machie Shop j The E&M shop is the largest shop, 311,000 square feet uder roof, takig up eight acres of the Juiata Shop complex. Wheel Shop j The state-of-the-art Wheel Shop uses computer-cotrolled equipmet to trasport wheels to storage locatios ad work statios. The ogoig moderizatio of the Wheel Shop boosts productio capacity to 32 wheel sets per shift. A ewly istalled wheel borig mill alog with improvemets to the U-Tube assembly area have icreased the shop s capabilities. Truck Shop j Recet modificatios to the truck overhaul area have improved capacity ad speed for rebuildig trucks ad hadlig truck chageouts. Locomotive out-of-service time for truck chageouts has decreased from five days to 10 hours. The Truck Shop is capable of producig up to 46 locomotive trucks per moth. Store House j The material storage area is equipped with 30-foot-high racks for storig locomotive replacemet parts used at the shop complex ad throughout the NS system. Pait Shop j Two locomotive pait booths use high-tech applicatio systems to produce 16 multi-color pait scheme locomotives per moth. A moder pait-strippig operatio provides the speed ad exterior fiish capability to esure a automotive-quality pait fiish.

4 Juiata Locomotive Shop Complex Diesel Test Shed Locomotive Cleaig Locomotive Pait Shop Weldig Shop Plat Pretreatmet Waste Fa Motor Shop Blacksmith Shop No. 1 Machie Shop A Turtable B C D E Café Emissio Testig Shop Lab Office Scale Shop Geeral Office Buildig Power Plat R&R Warehouse / Storage Blacksmith Shop No. 2 Miscellaeous Shop Storage Welfare Facility E&M Shop Receivig ad Shippig Air Compressor Code QC Room 3 Material Sortig Welfare Facility Mai Etrace Idustrial Truck Shop Locatio Map Chestut Aveue

5 Horsepower Heritage 1886 j Pesylvaia Railroad officials bega costructig the Juiata Shop complex to build ad repair steam locomotives. The layout employed a parallel assemblylie style with boiler, blacksmith, machie ad erectig shops eablig a smooth, orderly productio flow j The first locomotive built i the Juiata Shop rolled out. Over the ext five years, the shop icreased i size ad employmet j A secod machie shop was costructed j New bays were added alog with a storehouse j As the steam era eded, the shop took i electric, gas-electric, ad diesel locomotives j Corail took over operatio of the Juiata Shop ad embarked upo a three-year moderizatio program that brought the shop up to techological stadards for locomotive maiteace ad overhaul work. Today j The shop at Altooa makes up the largest railroad shop complex i North America, overhaulig approximately 400 locomotive uits aually.

6 Horsepower to Haress the Future As the future of trasportatio, Norfolk Souther is committed to sustaiable busiess practices ad reducig our carbo footprit. Iovatio ad techology comig out of the Juiata Shop are part of that commitmet. Built at the Juiata Shop, the NS 999 is a etirely electric locomotive that uses a lead-acid eergy storage system comprised of 1, volt batteries. The NS 999 operates i railroad switchig applicatios without the use of a diesel egie ad with zero exhaust emissios. By usig regeerated kietic eergy of the trai ad with o diesel exhaust emissios, NS 999 represets a promisig future. Here i Altooa, we re trasformig the future of rail trasportatio, reducig our depedece o foreig sources of oil, ad creatig better air quality for our coutry. It s about how we wat the future to look, with good jobs for the people who build these ew egies of commerce. The Juiata Locomotive Shop keeps Norfolk Souther rollig forward i vaguard efforts to fid greeer ad cleaer alteratives to meet our atio s eergy ad trasportatio eeds.

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