Norfolk Southern Corporation announced  it has appointed Floyd Hudson as Vice President Transportation. Hudson was previously General Manager of the company’s Southern Region. He succeeds Hunt Cary, who is departing the company.

Sanborn said that Hudson and Paul Duncan, the company’s new Vice President Network Planning and Operations, will make a powerful Operations leadership combination along with veteran Norfolk Southern executives Vice President Engineering Ed Boyle and Vice President Advanced Train Control Tom Schnautz.

Hudson joined Norfolk Southern as a Management Trainee in 2004 and progressed through Operations field leadership roles of increasing responsibility in several locations across the Norfolk Southern network. He has led both the Southern and Northern regions and spent a year on a rotational assignment as Chief of Staff to Chairman and CEO Jim Squires.

Hudson is a graduate of North Carolina Central University, where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He also completed the executive development program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

-via Press Release