December 5, 2002 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 18, 2001, an eastbound CSXT freight train (L412-16), consisting of 3 locomotive units and 31 loaded and 29 empty cars (total of 60 cars), derailed in the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland. The train had just departed the CSXT...
December 3, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
ROCKLAND, N.Y. — A county proposal to keep Rockland free of blaring train whistles must now await a decision by federal officials trying to come up with a way to keep railroad crossings safe without splitting neighbors’ eardrums, reports the White Plains...
November 25, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — On schedule, the 60h Anniversary Santa Train pulled into town Saturday after Santa Claus and singer Patty Loveless helped deliver tons of gifts to large crowds through Kentucky and Virginia, the Johnson City Press reported. The train,...
November 25, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
SANTA CLAUS SPECIAL — Patty Loveless hopes any relatives who saw her tossing toys and candy off the back of the Santa Train Saturday at her hometown railroad crossing in Elkhorn City, Ky., will understand if she didn’t stay and talk, according to the...
November 25, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
DUMONT, N.J. — A police officer was released from the hospital Saturday, one day after a freight train struck his patrol car and dragged it about 50 feet at the New Milford Avenue railroad crossing, the Bergen Record reported. Patrolman Luke Totten suffered a...
November 25, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
ST. LOUIS — Four months after a man from Caseyville saved the village from potential catastrophe, railroad officials formally have recognized his efforts, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Caseyville Board of Trustees,...
November 25, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The family of a local man killed in a train crash is suing CSX Corporation for unspecified damages, television station WCPO reported. CSX employee Gary Oak, a 29-year veteran of the company, was working last week when he was hit and killed by...
November 22, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Contractors for CSX Transportation are wrapping up an excavation off River Street in Charlotte that was prompted by a Dec. 23, 2001, train derailment and chemical spill, the Democrat and Chronicle reported. Workers are taking down fencing and...
November 22, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — The 8.39 acres Chillicothe is planning to purchase from CSX has met environmental standards for commercial and industrial use, the Chillicothe Gazette reported. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued a statement Wednesday that said...
November 22, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
SOUTH TAMPA — Somewhere near the warehouse district of North Hyde Park, Cory Dickerson toils in a spot only hobos and train workers know much about, the St. Petersburg Times reported. In the dark and drizzle, he labors by flashlight, uncoupling cars from a CSX...
