February 26, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, NS
(Source: Reuters, February 26, 2018) SEATTLE/BOCA RATON, Fla. — The drive for cost cuts and higher margins at U.S. trucking and railroad operators is pinching their biggest customers, forcing the likes of General Mills Inc and Hormel Foods Corp to spend more on...
February 21, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: The Daily Times, February 21, 2018) MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Several Blount County residents suing CSX Transportation Inc. over a train derailment in 2015 have dropped their cases against the railroad, but are set to go to trial next week against the owner of the...
February 20, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Post and Courier, February 17, 2018) CHARLESTON, S.C. — Every three days, somewhere in America, someone makes a mistake with the switches that control where trains go. And those mistakes cause accidents — usually because a locomotive is put on the wrong...
February 20, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Herald-Dispatch, February 18, 2018) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Forty-six former railroad workers are suing CSX for alleged wrongful termination, according to court documents filed Friday at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia...
February 16, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, February 15, 2018) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Human error is likely the cause of a collision between an Amtrak train and a freight train in South Carolina that killed two people and injured dozens of others earlier this month, according to a...
February 15, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Jacksonville Business Journal, February 14, 2018) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The rate of accidents involving CSX Corp. trains have been rising as its workforce has been dramatically slashed, with some workers saying morale at the Jacksonville-based railroad is at a...
February 13, 2018 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Trains, February 12, 2018) CSX’s train accident and personal injury rates both rose last year, by 12 percent and 13 percent, respectively, amid the broad operational and management changes made by then-CEO E. Hunter Harrison. The Federal Railroad...
February 12, 2018 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Live 5 News, February 9, 2018) COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s through tragedies that we often see some of the greatest gestures of kindness. Lexington County first responders paid a visit to a group of first graders on Friday. They were there to return a favor to...
February 12, 2018 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, February 11, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility...
February 9, 2018 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The widow of an Amtrak train conductor killed this week in a South Carolina collision filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Amtrak and CSX Corp, the Florida Times-Union reported. Full story:...
