October 2, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Television station WIS 10, October 1, 2019) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today the National Transportation Safety Board released a final 90-page report on the deadly train accident on February 4th of last year in Cayce that killed 2 people and injured 90 others. The...
September 30, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Television station WTVF, September 27, 2019) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For years, residents in one South Nashville neighborhood have been fighting against a safety concern. Full story: News Channel 5
September 30, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2019) NEW YORK — Pete Carpenter’s work experience during college included stocking shelves at Kroger grocery stores and serving as a railroad brakeman. Kroger, he wrote later, taught him how to spot items with the best...
September 27, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: West Virginia Public Radio, September 26, 2019) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start classes, or move away from their...
September 26, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, September 25, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Shippers, freight railroads and the investor community must tackle the “dysfunctional” relationships between them so that they create an effective and efficient supply chain and meet future demand for...
September 25, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 24, 2019) The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) announced yesterday it marked its busiest month ever for containerized trade in August, handling a 16.5 percent increase in container volume compared to the same month last year....
September 23, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, UP
(Source: Motley Fool, September 20, 2019) NEW YORK — Trucks are hearing the distant rumblings of an approaching freight train that they would rather see derailed. Precision scheduled railroading (PSR) may finally be paying off for railroads. Operating ratios have...
September 23, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station RTV6, September 22, 2019) MUNCIE, Ind. — Trains are stopping for long periods of time in Muncie, causing disruptions to first responders, school buses and drivers, and the city said it is looking into writing tickets to train companies to...
September 20, 2019 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Baltimore Sun, September 20, 2019) BALTIMORE, Md. — Three years after a CSX freight train hit a garbage truck, derailed and exploded in Rosedale in 2013, the state of Maryland won a $700,000 grant from the federal government for safety improvements at that...
September 20, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, September 19, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Executives at North America’s major railroads are making the case that intermodal service will be more reliable and consistent after a year of major service changes. This comes as weakness in the...
