August 28, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Lee Williams appeared on the Goldsboro News Argus website on August 27.) PIKEVILLE, N.C. — A freight train carrying animal feed derailed at about 3 p.m. Sunday near a cotton field off U.S. 117 North and Hicks Road. The CSX train was bound for...
August 23, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following report by Bob Gardinier appeared on the Albany Times Union on August 22.) TROY, N.Y. — The head of a crime ring that stole tons of copper wire from National Grid substations and CSX rail yards in three counties will spend up to 14 years in prison after...
August 21, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following report by Diane Lacey Allen appeared on The Lakeland Ledger website on Augusst 20.) LAKELAND, Fla. — Lakeland city commissioners stopped short of officially opposing the CSX’s Winter Haven rail transfer center project on Monday. But they...
August 21, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Sarah Fay Campbell appeared on The Times-Herald website on August 21.) NEWNAN, Ga. — As work proceeds to improve the intersection of U.S. 29 and Weldon Road at rail tracks in north Coweta County, a new study by the Citizens for Rail Safety and...
August 20, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Tim Sampson appeared on the Bowling Green News website on August 20.) BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Students and locals stumble up and down Wooster Street about 30 minutes before last call as a train horn cuts through the cool, damp air. As they reach...
August 17, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on August 17.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Somewhere along the line, Florida lost track of a railroad. The railroad didn’t mind, but the blunder cost taxpayers millions and is another example of...
August 16, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following report appeared on the Toledo Blade website on August 16.) TONTOGANY, Ohio — A firefighter was hurt when two train engines, one holding 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel, burned last night on the CSX railroad tracks in this western Wood County village about...
August 16, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following on August 16.) CHICAGO — Shares of Continental Airlines Inc. plunged nearly 17 percent Wednesday, leading a broad decline in airline stocks, and railroad stocks fell after Citi Investment Research said 2008 earnings forecasts...
August 15, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Sydney P. Freedberg appeared on the St. Petersburg Times website on August 12.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For at least a decade, railroad giant CSX Corp. has avoided paying taxes on several Florida properties because of mistakes by state and local...
August 13, 2007 | CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Julie Turkewitz appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on August 11.) BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Department of Transportation and railroad conglomerate CSX agreed yesterday to a one-month deadline to decide which entity will pay for improvements...
