Around 40 jobs will be leaving Macon County once Norfolk Southern Railroad centralizes its train dispatching operations in Atlanta. In a statement to the Herald & Review, a company spokesperson said that 36 Decatur employees will be offered new jobs in Atlanta along with more than 400 others spread out across Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Michigan and Indiana. Last year, the railroad company reported a more than five billion dollar profit and stands to gain another 3.5 billion dollars with the recent federal tax cuts. Despite that, Norfolk Southern has already cut 400 million dollars in expenses -including jobs- over the past two years, and says they plan to shave off another 250 million dollars by 2020.