January 13, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following on January 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a move to enhance safety on the nation’s railroads, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters today announced a final rule to improve the crashworthiness of railroad...
January 12, 2009 | Commuter Rail, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Bill Thompson appeared on the Star-Banner website on January 11.) OCALA, Fla. — Just before Christmas, vehicular traffic began rolling over westbound lanes of the new railroad overpass on Southwest 17th Street, about four months before the...
January 12, 2009 | Commuter Rail, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Lindsay Peterson appeared on the Tampa Tribune website on January 22.) TAMPA, Fla. — When Florida Department of Transportation officials chose a Colorado company early last year to build 10 railcars for its new Orlando commuter system, they...
January 12, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following on January 9.) CHICAGO — The Greenbrier Hotel, the resort and spa in the Allegheny Mountains where the U.S. government built a top-secret nuclear shelter for Congress during the Cold War, said on Friday it would furlough hundreds of...
January 12, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Traffic World website on January 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Railroad operator CSX moved closer to collecting $11 million from two hedge funds that successfully fought to get four directors on the CSX board last year....
January 9, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(The following column by Chris Jones appeared on the Motley Fool website on January 8.) A piece of American history rests in the hands of CSX (NYSE: CSX) shareholders, but that arrangement could soon change. The Greenbrier, the company’s luxury resort in...
January 8, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Eileen Kelley appeared on the Cincinnati Enquirer website on January 8.) QUEENSGATE, Ohio — Everything ended safely after two tanker cars carrying 263,000 pounds of liquefied propane derailed and toppled over Wednesday morning, forcing road...
January 7, 2009 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Louis Cooper appeared on the Pensacola News Journal website on January 6.) PENSACOLA, Fla. — Efforts continued Monday to mop up 23,000 gallons of petroleum that leaked from a damaged tanker car in a CSX train derailment near Milton on Saturday....
January 6, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Robert Trigaux appeared at TampaBay.com on January 5.) TAMPA, Fla. — A growing number of railroad customers — including a prominent electricity provider here in Tampa — complain big rail companies have been raising prices unfairly....
January 5, 2009 | CSX, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 2.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Greenbrier’s owner has hired New York investment banking giant Goldman Sachs & Co. to help determine what to do with the money-losing luxury resort. Jacksonville,...
