---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-111607"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NSC"
cik: "0000702165"
company_name: "NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T23:17:15.298118+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Norfolk Southern closes $400M offering of 5.100% Senior Notes due 2035

## Summary
- $400M aggregate principal of 5.100% Senior Notes due 2035 issued on May 2, 2025.
- Interest payable semi-annually at 5.100% per annum; redeemable at Norfolk Southern's option.
- Underwriters include BofA Securities, SMBC Nikko, and Wells Fargo Securities.
- Issued under existing shelf registration; proceeds not specified in filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-111607
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NSC
- cik: 0000702165
- company_name: NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000119312525111607/0001193125-25-111607-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000119312525111607/d39393d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP incurred senior notes of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount with BofA Securities, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at 5.100% per annum maturing 2035.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount
  - Counterparty: BofA Securities, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
  - Rate: 5.100% per annum
  - Maturity: 2035
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On May 2, 2025, Norfolk Southern Corporation (the "Registrant") completed its offering of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.100% Senior Notes due 2035 (the "Notes") pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated April 28, 2025 (the "Agreement"), by and among the Registrant and BofA Securities, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000119312525111607/0001193125-25-111607-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.