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Man faces charges after train hits his car

(The Cordele Dispatch posted the following story by Cindy Bishop on its website on October 12.) CORDELE, Ga. — A local man who was headed to work Friday for the afternoon shift at a local chemical company had quite a stroke of bad luck. Not only was he hit by a...

CSX declares quarterly dividend

(CSX Corporation issued the following news release on October 8.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corporation’s board of directors today approved regular quarterly dividends on the company’s common stock. The 10 cents per share dividend is payable December...

CSX charges tolls to cross tracks

(Florida television station WJXX posted the following story by Ken Amaro on its website on October 6.) BRYCEVILLE, FL — In this rural part of Nassau County, many of the homes are on the other side of the tracks. Now it is going to cost to get there. “First...

Georgia company on track to open job training center for CSX

(The Albany Business Review posted the following article by Eric Durr on its website on October 3.) ALBANY, N.Y. — AMDG Inc., a Peachtree City, Ga.-based company that specializes in training railroad employees, will open a training center in the Capital Region....

CSX train derails in Pa., injuring conductor

(The Associated Press circulated the following story October 1.) NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. — Seventeen cars on a freight train slipped off their tracks Wednesday, knocking over two locomotives on another track and injuring a conductor, authorities said. The 92-car...

CSX says it can’t afford to aid bridge project

(The following article by David Patch was posted on the Toledo Blade website on October 1.) TOLEDO, Ohio — A CSX Transportation Corp. official has told the Ohio Department of Transportation that the railroad can?t afford to help pay for a bridge project that...

Region to benefit from Atlanta’s freight rail hub

(The Florida Times-Union posted the following story by Walter C. Jones on its website on September 30.) ATLANTA — The sound of trains was unusually absent one morning last this week along two tracks that normally carry many of the 2 million rail cars passing...

CSX to hold third quarter earnings meeting

(CSX Corp. issued the following news release on September 29.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corporation will hold its third-quarter 2003 earnings meeting for analysts on Friday, October 24, 2003, at 11 a.m. EDT. The meeting will be held in the JP MorganChase...

Derailment, chemical spill spark flurry of lawsuits

(The following article by Jamie Satterfield was posted on the Knoxville News website on September 26.) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A year after a train derailment sent plumes of sulfuric acid into the air in Farragut, more than a dozen lawsuits seeking millions in...

Firefighters on track to battle train spills

(The Daily Freeman posted the following story by Paul Kirby on its website on September 25.) KINGSTON, N.Y. — Using tanker railroad cars that would carry hazardous materials, representatives of CSX Corp. are training Ulster County firefighters and other rescue...