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Residents question CSX rail lines relocation

(The following article by Moody Connell appeared on the Pascagoula Press website on June 24.) ST. MARTIN, Miss. — Residents from Jackson and Harrison counties fired questions at a Mississippi Department of Transportation engineer over the impact of rerouting CSX...

Tracks open after train derailment

(The following article by Timothy Cox was posted on the Augusta Chronicle’s website on June 22.) AUGUSTA, Ga. — By early Sunday morning a train derailment in an Augusta neighborhood had been cleaned up and the tracks were reopened, said CSX spokesman Dan Murphy....

3 hurt in freight train collision in W. Md.

(The Associated Press distributed the following article on June 19.) CUMBERLAND, Md. — A head-on collision today between two CSX freight trains in a rail yard near Cumberland left three crew members with non- life-threatening injuries, the company said. Four...

‘It has put CSX on the map’

(The following article by Chip Jones was posted on the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s website on June 15.) RICHMOND — Karen Hartsock was driving her daughter home from school when she spotted the first sign of trouble with the railroad. “I saw this orange sign...

Cleanup continues at CSX derailment site

(The Munster Times posted the following story by Mary Wilds on its website on June 13.) ST. JOHN, Ind. — Officials remained mum Thursday regarding the condition of three CSX employees injured during Wednesday’s train derailment behind Schilling Brothers...

CSX rethinks closing crossings

(The Richmond Times-Dispatch posted the following article by Chip Jones to its website on June 12.) RICHMOND, Va. — CSX Corp. is backing off an initiative that could have closed railroad crossings to dozens of homes and farms in Southwest Virginia, an executive...

Three injured in train derailment

(The following article by Christine Harvey was posted on the Northwest Indiana Times website on June 12.) ST. JOHN, Ind. — Emergency workers needed the Jaws of Life on Wednesday to pry two injured CSX employees from the wreckage of a train derailment behind...

Railroad machinist dies on the job

(The Winchester Herald-Chronicle posted the following article on its website on June 10.) TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — A CSX railroad machine operator from Cowan was dead on arrival at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma Friday morning after he collapsed while...