(The following story by Eric Anderson appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on January 22, 2009.)
SELKIRK, N.Y. — CSX Corp. has laid off 40 employees in the Capital Region as it copes with declining freight traffic, company spokesman Bob Sullivan said Wednesday.
Companywide, 1,600 of the company’s 34,690 employees were laid off, or about 4.6 percent of the work force, according to Bloomberg News.
CSX Transportation operates a massive railyard in Selkirk and employs about 1,000 people in the Capital Region.
Sullivan said the layoffs were temporary and that if freight volumes rebounded, “our intention is to call these people back.”