Staff File Photo by Robin Rudd / Lit by the construction lights from the ongoing building of a new lock at Chickamauga Dam, a Norfolk Southern freight train begins to cross the bridge over the Tennessee River, as another train is stopped on the span. Norfolk Southern recently completed the purchase of $453 million worth of property in Hamilton County from the Cincinnati Southern Railway.
In the biggest real estate purchase in Hamilton County history, Norfolk Southern railroad paid more than $453 million to buy 365 tracts of property across Hamilton County previously owned by the city of Cincinnati on rail lines Norfolk Southern has operated for more than a century.
