Norfolk Southern Not much from individual people, but from news agencies and politicians, I can quickly

see their negative perception by just searching on Twitter: #AlexandriaVa Mayor Bill Euille is not pleased with Norfolk Southern wieghing expanding its West
End facility: NC Headlines: Norfolk Southern worker killed in NC mudslide: A Norfolk Southern worker has been killed after h. This Norfolk Southern freight train derailed north of Millsboro, DE this morning. pic.twitter.com/LYebSpGCse

This will be amplified by the derailment of the freight train in Quebec. That being said, there is positive press about them rehiring 42 laid-off workers recently.

CSX Similar in terms of the derailment of trains being amplified in the media right now: Derailed CSX train backups port shipments from Virginia to Midwest:
CSX coal train derailment in southern Albemarle County, no injuries, 29 cars off rails, @EvanneArmour with more @ 11

Union Pacific
UPDATE: @UnionPacific advises a locomotive, four rail cars derailed. @TxDPS says one car has 30,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate .#breaking

These are all from within the week. Before the Quebec derailment, I dont think people really had an opinion they saw the trains as a mode of moving freight, just the same way we think about trucks on a freeway. The tweets from the companies themselves seem pretty good, though. CSX, for example: MT @CustomTrains: @CSX connects cities states ports & communities with the fuel efficiency of
#freightrail moving America's economy forward. How well do you know your #RRHistory? Who invented the first American-made locomotive? Its name? How fast was it? bit.ly/XXleyn
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