(Source: Food and Wine, August 23, 2017)
NEW YORK — Ongoing issues with the freight-train company CSX Corp is having surprising ramifications for some of America’s major fried potato products, according to the Wall Street Journal. In March, the struggling railroad business brought in a new president and CEO, Hunter Harrison, in the hopes that, as he has done for other freight-train brands, he can turn things around. But in an effort to make CSX, one of only two major railroad operators east of the Mississippi, more efficient, delivery times have actually been significantly slowed—with the Rail Customer Coalition even stating that CSX is putting “the health of our nation’s economy in jeopardy.”
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