January 9, 2020 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Opinion column by Jim Blaze in the International Railway Journal, January 2020 issue, January 8, 2020) NEW YORK — A stagnant North America freight market is set to continue in 2020. However, technological advances and potential growth in intermodal and...
January 7, 2020 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, January 6, 2020) NEW YORK — Back in December, RT&S reported that Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc., along with other shippers, accused the major U.S. railroads of price fixing, with a focus on fuel surcharges. Today, the...
January 6, 2020 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Washington Post, January 4, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over 20,000 rail workers have lost their jobs in the past year, the biggest layoffs in rail since the Great Recession and a nearly 10 percent decline in rail employment, according to Labor Department data...
December 27, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Herald-Mail, December 23, 2019) HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — Tourists and outdoor enthusiasts continued Monday to deal with the inconvenience of not being able to cross the Potomac River on a footbridge connected to a railroad bridge after a train derailment over...
December 27, 2019 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, December 24, 2019) RALEIGH, N.C. — A multi-billion-dollar deal between CSX Corp. and Virginia to improve passenger rail service to and from Washington, D.C., also includes good news for efforts to run high-speed trains between Virginia and...
December 27, 2019 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Richmond Free Press, December 27, 2019) RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond would be a major beneficiary of an unprecedented $3.7 billion deal announced by Gov. Ralph S. Northam to boost passenger rail service between Washington and other Virginia cities to avoid an...
December 23, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Crain’s Detroit Business, December 19, 2019) DETROIT, Mich. — U.S. Steel Corp. plans to indefinitely idle “a significant portion” of its Great Lakes Works production facility in Ecorse and River Rouge and will issue layoff notices to 1,545...
December 23, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: CNN, December 22, 2019) CINCINNATI, Ohio — About 20 train cars were sent off the tracks Sunday morning in Cincinnati. A CSX train derailed around 5:15 a.m., sending seven to eight cars off the tracks about 10 miles west of downtown along the Ohio River. Full...
December 23, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: NBC Washington, December 21, 2019) HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — A freight train crossing the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, derailed early Saturday morning, causing two cars to plummet into the water. Seven cars derailed on the bridge, wiping out...
December 20, 2019 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Television station WTOP, December 19, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the biggest boost in decades to train travel in the D.C. area, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and CSX announced a $3.7 billion agreement Thursday for the state to buy 225 miles of track and build...
