Join Trains on a locomotive-studded tour of CSX Transportation — the blue and gold railroad — along with predecessors. Trains honored CSX with a full-length DVD in 2020. This segment from the DVD features an overview of CSX and a history of the railroad and predecessors. Only from Trains.com! […]
Join Trains on a locomotive-studded tour of CSX Transportation — the blue and gold railroad — along with predecessors. Trains honored CSX with a full-length DVD in 2020. This segment from the DVD features an overview of CSX and a history of the railroad and predecessors. Only from Trains.com! […]
Additional Friday morning rail news: NTSB releases initial report on October CSX employee death at Richmond’s Acca Yard A CSX employee killed in an October accident in Richmond, Va., died when the train he was operating by remote control struck three standing cars on an adjacent track, according to a preliminary report from the National […]
More Thursday morning rail news: CSX train hits boulder, derails in Kentucky A CSX Transportation train has derailed in Harlan County, Ky., after striking a boulder that fell from a cliff face across an adjacent highway, WKYT-TV reports. The rockfall and derailment has closed State Route 2007 between Wallins and Coldiron, Ky. The derailment occurred […]
No injuries resulted when a CSX coal train derailed after striking a rockslide in the Harlan County community Wallins Creek, Ky. Two locomotives and eight cars derailed. WYMT-TV quotes CSX spokeswoman Cindy Schild as saying the derailment occurred about 2:09 a.m., and no leaks or spills into waterways occurred. A state transportation department spokesman said […]
LENOX, Mass. — A donation from CSX to the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum will mean new windows for its ex-New Haven Budd Rail Diesel Car in the coming year. The $10,000 donation came as a surprise to the group. “CSX reached out to us,” said Brent S. Bette, of Berkshire Scenic. “They wanted to make […]
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a half-dozen safety recommendations as a result of its investigation into an Aug. 2, 2017, CSX Transportation derailment in Hyndman, Pa. Thirty-three cars of a 178-car train derailed, resulting in an evacuation order covering about 1,000 residents and damage estimated at $1.8 million. The report […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation sees the potential for growth through its planned acquisition of New England regional Pan Am Railways. “If you look historically, they’ve been able to grow a little bit faster than what we’ve been able to achieve. So we think the growth profile is attractive for us,” Chief Financial Officer Kevin […]
WASHINGTON — With the Canadian National’s acquisition of CSX Transportation’s line linking Syracuse, N.Y., with Montreal stuck in regulatory limbo, the railroads have extended a self-imposed deadline for the deal to close. The railroads on Monday told the U.S. Surface Transportation Board that they were extending a Nov. 30 “drop dead date” to Feb. 28, […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation will acquire regional Pan Am Railways in a deal that will redraw the railroad map in New England. CSX, already the dominant freight railroad in the region, will extend its reach into Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, as well as to Saint John, New Brunswick, via Pan Am’s haulage rights […]
Cleanup continues of a CSX derailment Monday night in North Baltimore, Md., although one track of the rail line was reopened as of 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. The Capital Gazette reports 21 cars of the 109-car train, en route from Avon, Ind., to Philadelphia, derailed about 6:30 p.m. Monday night. There were no injuries and […]
Thursday morning news on railroad awards and other recognition: CN, CSX, CP named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index Canadian National, CSX Transportation, and Canadian Pacific have been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which measures companies on environmental, social, governance, and economic critiera. CN says in a news release that it is its 12th […]
