The customer is at the center of everything we do at Norfolk Southern. We have launched NSites to aid in enhancing transparency and simplicity during the site selection process. 

NSites is a GIS-based search engine to help businesses easily find rail-served industrial sites and transload facilities that meet their needs. This innovative online portal provides comprehensive information about industrial sites near Norfolk Southern’s transportation infrastructure, encouraging investment and job creation.  

“We developed NSites with the user in mind, to empower current and future customers during site selection decisions,” said Ed Elkins, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “Before NSites, there was no single destination to help large manufacturers, site-selection professionals, and developers identify and compare rail-served industrial sites that offer the exact site characteristics they need.”

The search tool includes more than 800 available industrial locations across the railroad’s 22-state territory, all verified as rail accessible by Norfolk Southern or one of its short line partners. Additionally, users can find nearly 250 rail-to-truck transload facilities in key markets across the eastern U.S.

Similar to online residential real-estate sites that let users search for homes based on their criteria, NSites enables a customized search of properties. By using targeted filters, companies can filter results based on acreage, location, existing warehousing, and proximity to highways, intermodal terminals, and port facilities.

Technology is at the heart of how we serve our customers, and NSites is one of many initiatives we’re developing to build the digital railroad of the future,” Elkins said.

Among its numerous innovative features, NSites offers auto generated, downloadable site brochures and site data that users can analyze offline and share with other stakeholders in the site-selection process. Additionally, NSites provides site-specific contacts that connect users with Norfolk Southern rail experts that can help coordinate projects from initial contact to delivery of the first railcar.

For a brief demonstration of the NSites platform click here.