August 9, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains.com, August 8, 2023) The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has halted work on a project on state-owned tracks used by the Housatonic Railroad following a fatal accident last week, pending a safety review of the contractor hired for the track...
August 8, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains.com, August 4, 2023) A contract worker hit by a piece of track equipment on the Housatonic Railroad has died. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident. Full story: Trains.com
August 4, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Lawsuit, NS
(Source: Trains.com, August 3, 2023) Norfolk Southern, in a lawsuit filed this week in Delaware, accuses CSX Transportation of hampering its access to New England by repeatedly violating the operating agreements related to CSX’s 2022 acquisition of regional Pan Am...
July 21, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: Associated Press, July 20, 2023) CSX said that it earned $996 million, or 49 cents per share, during the second quarter. That’s down 15% from a year ago when the railroad’s results were helped by a $122 million land sale. Last year, CSX reported earnings of...
July 21, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: CSX press release, July 20, 2023) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corp. today announced second quarter 2023 operating income of $1.48 billion compared to $1.70 billion in the prior year period. Net earnings of $996 million, or $0.49 per diluted share, compared to...
July 21, 2023 | CSX, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: WHYY, July 20, 2023) Transportation experts and environmental advocates are calling for increased rail safety following Monday’s train derailment in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County. The CSX train, traveling on Norfolk Southern tracks, carried flammable...
July 21, 2023 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, July 21, 2023) CSX is playing a long-term game when looking at encouraging shippers to switch from using trucks to using the railroads, and quantifying what that might look like could take some time, executives said during the eastern U.S....
July 20, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 19, 2023) A CSX Transportation conductor trainee was killed when he fell from a railcar during a shoving move and was hit by the train, according National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on a fatal accident June 26 at...
July 19, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 16, 2023) A contract worker was killed Saturday morning in an accident at the CSX Transportation intermodal facility at Bedford Park, the Chicago Tribune reports. Full story: Trains Magazine
July 19, 2023 | CSX, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: WHYY, July 18, 2023) A spokesperson from CSX told WHYY News in a written statement that the entire length of the train was 40 railcars. CSX believes the cause of the incident “to be weather related” and that conditions created a “sinkhole in the rail bed.”...
