Norfolk Southern locomotives are moved by the Conway Terminal in Conway, Pa., Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern railroad is recovering from a “hardware-related technology outage” that disrupted practice site visitors throughout its community within the Eastern United States Monday, however there could also be lingering results for not less than a few weeks.

The railroad mentioned there isn’t any indication that the outage was associated to any cybersecurity incident. But spokesman Connor Spielmaker mentioned Tuesday morning that “we’re continuing our investigation into the root cause of these issues.”

All system performance was restored by 7 p.m. Eastern on Monday, the corporate mentioned, and it’s bringing the rail community again on-line.

Norfolk Southern has been involved with its clients and is working Tuesday to get shipments the place they should be. The railroad is among the largest in North America with almost 20,000 miles of monitor throughout 22 japanese states. Businesses of all kinds rely on Norfolk Southern to ship the uncooked supplies and items they want whereas serving to get their completed merchandise to their locations.

Norfolk Southern Corp., based mostly in Atlanta, is within the crosshairs of federal regulators after a derailment in Ohio earlier this 12 months led to a fiery, toxic chemical spill.

In a 143-page report this month, the Federal Railroad Administration mentioned that Norfolk Southern has made some improvements, however is nowhere close to the “gold standard for safety” its CEO is striving for. The railroad is simply too typically solely keen to satisfy minimal security necessities, regulators mentioned.

The company has promised to conduct comparable security tradition opinions in any respect the foremost freight railroads, together with CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, but it surely hasn’t set a timeline for these opinions.

Congress and regulators have known as for all the foremost freight railroads to make numerous adjustments to enhance security however proposed laws has stalled in the Senate and did not get began within the Republican-controlled House.