September 7, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, UP
(Source: Railway Age, September 6, 2018) NEW YORK — The peak season for intermodal traffic is fast approaching, and CSX in late July announced numerous changes to interline service, in particular, those affecting Union Pacific customers with eastbound shipments. The...
September 7, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Freight Waves, September 5, 2018) BOSTON — Even at an investors’ conference sponsored by Cowen Inc. in Boston, Norfolk Southern couldn’t get away from CSX. Full story: Freight Waves
September 7, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 6, 2018) BOSTON — CSX Transportation will eventually seek to operate trains with one-person crews on lines under the protection of positive train control, Chief Financial Officer Frank Lonegro told an investor conference this week....
September 5, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Baltimore Sun, September 4, 2018) BALTIMORE — crowd gathered Tuesday morning outside the new Dorothy I. Height Elementary School building in West Baltimore to protest Amtrak’s plans to replace the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel with a new tunnel under the city...
August 20, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Worcester Telegram, August 19, 2018) WORCESTER, Mass. — A 43-foot-tall crane that can lift up to 100,000 pounds rolled forward next to a train track at CSX Corp.’s Intermodal Terminal on Grafton Street. When it reached the end of the rail, the crane slowly...
August 20, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: WRAL, August 16, 2018) FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A CSX train stuck on the railroad tracks was blocking multiple intersections in downtown Fayetteville on Thursday morning. Full story: www.wral.com
August 20, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Bloomberg BNA, August 13, 2018) BOSTON — Massachusetts can’t apply its paid sick leave law to railroad employees who are protected by a federal unemployment insurance program, according to a federal district court. The federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance...
August 10, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, August 9, 2018) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Union Pacific customers sending freight east of the Mississippi have fewer options as the west’s main rail line blames changes on the part of its eastern peer CSX Full story: Freight...
August 8, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: CSX press release, August 7, 2018) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corporation today announced a new operating management structure that decentralizes operational and support functions. Designed to enhance safety, improve service, accelerate decision making and...
August 8, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, August 7, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The failures of a freight train company and a city to mitigate known safety hazards at a Biloxi, Mississippi, grade crossing is the probable cause of a fatal crash there,...
