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CSX, rail officials act to end storm outages

(The following article by Don Phillips appeared in the Washington Post.) WASHINGTON — A sometimes testy meeting of CSX Transportation, Amtrak and Virginia officials on Tuesday produced a tentative agreement to help ensure that the next major snowstorm does not...

CSX will move headquarters to Jacksonville

(The Florida Times-Union posted the following article by Christopher Calnan on its website on February 25.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corp., the parent company of Jacksonville’s CSX Transportation, announced today that it was moving its headquarters from...

CSX to move headquarters to Florida

(The following article by the Associated Press appeared in the New York Times online.) RICHMOND, Va. — CSX Corp. confirmed Tuesday that it will move its corporate headquarters from Richmond to Jacksonville, Fla. The move, expected to be completed by early May,...

Man’s love of railroads turns into art

(The following article by David Dishneau was published by the Associated Press.) HANOVER, Pa. — Each stroke of Charles L. Amos’ slender brush is colored by a lifetime spent dreaming, learning and teaching people about trains. Enchanted by steam locomotives...

CSX worker crushed to death in Buffalo

(The Buffalo News posted the following article by Vanessa Thomas and T.J. Pignataro on its website on February 19.) BUFFALO, N.Y. — A local railroad conductor was crushed to death Tuesday afternoon when he apparently became pinned between two boxcars near Union...

CSX worries stopped D.C. passenger trains

(The Washington Post published the following story by Don Phillips on its website on February 19.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — CSX Transportation, a major Eastern freight railroad whose tracks are used by many commuter and Amtrak passenger trains, was largely shut down...

Nineteen CSX cars derail

(The Tallahassee Democrat posted the following article by Gerald Ensley on its website on February 12.) CYPRESS — Nineteen CSX freight cars — none carrying hazardous material — derailed early Tuesday morning in the rural Florida Panhandle. The...

Road reopens after CSX derailment

(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted the following article by Mike Morris on its website on February 10.) ATLANTA — Howell Mill Road just south of I-75 was reopened before 8 a.m. today, about 3 hours after 10 cars of a CSX train derailed under a northwest...

CSX to fix runaway engine

(The Toledo Blade posted the following story by David Patch on its website on February 10.) TOLEDO, Ohio — Is this a loco locomotive, or what? CSX Transportation’s Engine No. 8888 made national news on May 15, 2001, when a mistake by its engineer sent the diesel...

Treasury’s Snow says deficits ‘unavoidable’

(The following Reuters article by Glenn Somerville appeared on Yahoo News.) WASHINGTON — John Snow, in his first appearance before Congress as U.S. treasury secretary on Tuesday, defended the Bush administration’s budget and stimulus plans and the record...