(Source: Herald-Dispatch, February 8, 2016)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington has benefited from railroads for more than 145 years. But there have been many changes over the years, and more of them are happening now. Today, CSX Transportation’s Huntington Division is in the process of disappearing, and with it 121 local jobs – including dispatchers, yardmasters and other contract and non-contract labor. Yardmaster positions alone will drop from 18 to three – leaving those officers only in Huntington, Logan and Russell, Kentucky.
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