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Lakeland keeps lawyer to fight CSX

(The following story by Rick Rousos appeared on the Lakeland Ledger website on August 29.) LAKELAND, Fla. — The city will keep its $200-per-hour Tallahassee land-use lawyer as it attempts to halt or slow the permitting of a huge CSX freight train terminal in southern...

No one injured in CSX derailment in Alabama

(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 28.) VINEMONT, Ala. — Seven cars overturned on the tracks when a CSX train carrying logs, grain and other materials derailed at Vinemont, but no one was reported injured. Decatur Emergency Services spokeswoman...

Blocked crossings, derailments a matter of life and death

(The following story by R.E. Spears III appeared on the Tidewater News website on August 28.) BOYKINS, Va. — The 911 emergency recordings are chilling. As a dispatcher at the Southampton Sheriff’s Office worked to alert railroad officials that they needed to move a...

Opinion: The real issues in the CSX-TCI dispute

(The following column by Steven M. Davidoff appeared on the New York Times website on August 25.) NEW YORK — This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard CSX’s latest argument to avoid seating two directors nominated by The Children’s...

CSX derailment damages autos, shuts down two crossings in Ohio

(The following story by Ken McCall appeared on the Dayton Daily News website on August 23.) TIPP CITY, Ohio — A CSX train derailment shut down two railroad crossings and scattered eight freight cars bearing new automobiles along the tracks just north of downtown early...

Railroad trespassers not always charged

(The following story by Audrey Levine appeared on the Manville News website on August 21.) MANVILLE, N.J. — Since October, Manville police have recorded about 22 incidents of loitering, trespassing or reports of suspicious people on local railroad tracks, with about...

Railroad traffic blocks some W.Va. residents from homes

(The following story by Bryan Chambers appeared on The Herald-Dispatch website on August 20.) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Imagine waking up in the morning and realizing that you’re going to be late for work because you can’t leave your house. Or coming home from...

Traffic is main concern in CSX central Florida report

(The following appeared on the Lake Wales News website on August 16.) WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Just how many trucks can State Route 60, U.S Highway 27 and U.S. Highway 98 handle should CSX build a massive rail transfer facility between Lake Wales and Bartow? While there...