Norfolk Southern Corporation is a holding company, which is engaged in the rail transportation business. The Company is engaged in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the Southeast, East, and Midwest and, via interchange with rail carriers, to and from the rest of the United States. The Company also transports overseas freight through several Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. It offers an intermodal network in the eastern half of the United States. Its railroad operations system reaches various manufacturing plants, electric generating facilities, mines, distribution centers and transload facilities. It is also a transporter of industrial products, including agricultural, forest and consumer products, chemicals, and metals and construction materials. It serves every container port and a principal carrier of coal, automobiles and automotive parts. It operates Great Lakes Reload (GLR) property in Chicago, a transload and warehouse facility.