December 18, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, December 17, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is awarding more than $40 million in funding towards 26 freight rail improvement projects throughout the state. While the majority of the grants are under $2...
December 18, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, UP
(Source: Jacksonville Business Journal, December 17, 2019) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. has filed suit against the largest U.S. rail carriers, including Jacksonville-based CSX Corp., alleging a price-fixing conspiracy. The suit, filed in the U.S....
December 18, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: SMART-TD press release, December 16, 2019) SMART Transportation Division member Curtis C. McConihay of Local 1386 (Parkersburg, W.Va.) was killed in an accident on CSX property in Washington, W.Va., on Saturday. Brother McConihay, 32, was a U.S. military...
December 16, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Television station WSAZ, December 15, 2019) WOOD COUNTY, W.Va. — A CSX Transportation employee died Saturday after being struck by a train. The incident happened near DuPont Road before 4 p.m. CSX Transportation is conducting an investigation. The victim’s...
December 12, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Altoona Mirror, December 11, 2019) ALTOONA, Pa. — A federal judge has put a halt to a lawsuit filed by several residents of Hyndman Borough who were evacuated from their homes 28 months ago following a derailment of a CSX Transportation freight train,...
December 11, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 9, 2019) CSX and the state of Maryland have agreed to $100 million in additional funding needed to advance the expansion of the long-planned Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore. Full story: Progressive...
December 11, 2019 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Legal Newsline, December 11, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consol Energy has filed a lawsuit against some of the largest U.S. class I railroads alleging an illegal fuel charge scheme. Consol alleges that the defendant railroads violated antitrust laws by assessing...
December 3, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 26, 2019) NEW YORK — CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific executives insisted last week that Precision Scheduled Railroading is a formula for growth, not a way for the industry to cut its way to prosperity. Full...
November 26, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Supply Chain Brain, November 26, 2019) NEW YORK — A new white paper from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business, in association with Maine Pointe, outlines the biggest challenges that rail carriers, shippers and investors are facing today....
November 25, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Kingsport Times News, November 23, 2019) ABOARD THE SANTA TRAIN — What’s a little rain? Nothing much, when you want to see the Santa Train. That, apparently, is the way folks along CSX’s rail line between Shelby, Kentucky, and downtown Kingsport were looking...
