FRA Certification Helpline: (216) 694-0240

Big rig collides with train

(The following article was posted on Indianapolis television station WRTV’s website on June 9.) INDIANAPOLIS — Emergency crews were clearing an accident Monday morning on the southwest side after an 18-wheeler collided with a train shortly before 9 a.m....

CSX leaves a model piece of its past in Richmond

(The following article by Chip Jones appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on June 6.) RICHMOND — CSX Corp. has sent another piece of its past packing. A working model of one of the last steam engines to roll through Richmond was carefully removed from the...

CSX, NS, Conrail ask STB to transfer NYC, PRR

(CSX and Norfolk Southern issued the following press release on June 4.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — CSX Corporation (CSX), Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), and Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) today announced the joint filing of a petition with the Surface...

CSX: Trains through Harmar not overloaded

(The following article by Tom Hrach was published in the Marietta Times on May 28.) MARIETTA, Ohio — The area’s district superintendent for CSX Transportation is denying citizen reports that coal cars are being overloaded and causing safety concerns for...

Pushing to make a rail connection

(The Boston Globe posted the following story by Thomas C. Palmer Jr. on its website on May 24.) BOSTON — For years, the rail company CSX Inc. has said that its sprawling freight-loading facility in Allston was there to stay. A 1994 study of 20 sites along the...

CSX to spend $47 million in Tenn.

(The Nashville City Paper posted the following article by Jeremy Heidt on its website on May 22.) NASHVILLE — The No. 1 freight railroad in the east, CSX Transportation, will be spending $47 million on maintenance and upgrades in Tennessee during 2003, an...

CSX plans to spend $28 million on rail work

(The Baltimore Sun posted the following article on its website on May 22.) HAGERSTOWN, Md. — CSX Corp. will spend more than $28 million this year to maintain and improve its rail system in Maryland, the company said yesterday. About a quarter of that amount is...

CSX plans upgrade in Michigan

(The Detroit Free Press posted the following article on its website on May 22.) DETROIT — CSX Transportation Inc. plans to upgrade its network in Michigan at a cost of $21 million, the Jacksonville, Fla., company said. The railroad company owns and maintains...

Opinion: A shot of cheap money helps the hangover

(The Baltimore Sun posted the following column by Jay Hancock on its website on May 21.) BALTIMORE — Like many of us, CSX Corp. borrowed boxcars of money in the 1990s. Loans to buy a piece of Conrail helped double CSX’s annual interest expense to $520...