December 14, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: HuntingtonNews.net, December 14, 2015) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As employees of AK Steel in Ashland brace for impending layoffs to arrive during the last two weeks of the year, reports are coming in that CSX is planning to realign the Huntington district. Full...
December 14, 2015 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, December 11, 2015) NEW YORK — The railroad controlled by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is open to making a competing bid for Norfolk Southern Corp., the target of a $27 billion takeover effort by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. Full story:...
December 11, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Trefis Team, December 10, 2015) NEW YORK — CSX Corporation and its partners have completed the construction of an intermodal rail terminal in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The construction of this latest intermodal terminal, which commences...
December 11, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 11, 2015) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Hard hats and golden shovels were out in force last Friday at the official groundbreaking for the $60 million terminal facility being built by CSX Corp. in Stowe and McKees Rocks. Full story:...
December 1, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Pittsburgh Business Times, November 30, 2015) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Demolition is under way and a celebration scheduled for the new Intermodal Rail Terminal in McKees Rocks and Stowe Township. Full story: Pittsburgh Business Times
November 30, 2015 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Courier-Post, November 25, 2015) CAMDEN, N.J. — Plaintiffs suing Conrail over the 2012 Paulsboro train derailment missed the deadline to appeal a judge’s decision to prohibit a medical expert’s testimony. The group is denied an extension because...
November 25, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Railway Age, November 23, 2015) NEW YORK — CSX’s Santa Train completed its 73rd run on Nov. 21, 2015 in Kingsport, Tenn., after having made its inaugural run in 1943 as a good will gesture to residents of rural Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia. Full...
November 18, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Tribune, November 17, 2015) CHICAGO — In a seven-page letter this year to U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and other members of the Illinois congressional delegation, state Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago; state Reps. Kelly Burke, D-Evergreen Park,...
November 11, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Marketwatch, November 10, 2015) NEW YORK — Railroad operator CSX Corp. said Tuesday it expects fourth-quarter per-share earnings to decline slightly from the same period a year ago, hurt by continued headwinds in the energy market. Full story:...
November 5, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, November 4, 2015) PHILADELHPIA — Pennsylvania’s senior U.S. senator is asking two freight railroad companies to reduce the speed of trains carrying flammable crude oil. Democrat Bob Casey wants CSX and Norfolk Southern to reduce speeds...