November 21, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — It’s the type frenzy usually associated with gleeful children ripping packages open, the Kingsport Times-News reported. But Wednesday night at Ed Moore’s Food City, it was the type enthusiasm scores of volunteers had while packing...
November 21, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
ERWIN, Tenn. — In recent years, the women who run Heartfelt Florist in Erwin have had the job — or, as they put it, the privilege — of decorating the legendary Santa Train before it heads north to deliver gifts to the children of Appalachia, the...
November 21, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
MADEIRA, Ohio — Firefighters from two departments spent much of Wednesday battling a stubborn blaze after a load of lumber on a CSX train caught fire, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. There were no injuries and no damage estimate was determined, fire officials...
November 19, 2002 | CSX, Headlines, NS
MUNCIE, Ind. — A quiet zone for Muncie’s downtown will now depend on federal funds to silence train whistles and close some of the city’s rail crossings, the Muncie Star Press reported. After meeting with Mayor Dan Canan and other community leaders,...
November 18, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Epic recording artist Patty Loveless, who’s first Christmas record “Bluegrass White Snow – A Mountain Christmas” was released October 29, will ride the famed Santa Special through Appalachia this November 23 as part of...
November 18, 2002 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Federal Railroad Administration is investigating a Friday morning accident that killed a Queensgate railyard worker, television station WCPO reported. Police said a CSX employee was driving a company car on a set of train tracks in the...
November 15, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
BUFFALO, N.Y. — CSX Transportation will lay off 19 employees from its mechanical department at the Frontier Yard off Broadway, citing the slow economy, the Buffalo News reported. The layoffs will leave 46 people working in the department, said Robert Sullivan, a...
November 13, 2002 | CSX, Headlines, Remote Control
GREENUP, Ky. — The Greenup County Fiscal Court adopted a resolution Tuesday asking CSX Transportation to stop operating its recently assigned remote-controlled locomotives, the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch reported. “Railroad equipment is known to...
November 12, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
WINCHESTER, Tenn. — The two-week Franklin County Circuit Court trial into the wrongful death of a Franklin County teen ended Friday afternoon (November 8) in a mistrial, the Tullahoma News reported. Norman and Maryellen Feaster sued CSX Railroad over the...
November 12, 2002 | CSX, Headlines
FOSTORIA, Ohio — Laurie Kinn was waiting at a railroad crossing for a freight train to pass when a tornado lifted four rail cars off the track in front of her minivan and tossed them up the street, the Associated Press reported. “I threw my kids down on...
