CSX Chief Operating Officer James M. Foote CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New CSX Transportation Chief Operating Officer James Foote took home a $400,000 signing bonus and is earning a higher base salary than either of the executives he is replacing. A veteran of Canadian National, Foote was hired last week to replace Chief Operating […]
WASHINGTON — Maryland’s entire congressional delegation has written to CSX Transportation CEO E. Hunter Harrison, asking him to explain the railroad’s decision to drop out of a partnership to raise clearances in the Howard Street Tunnel. On Nov. 1, in response to media inquiries, CSX confirmed that it no longer considered the long-sought tunnel project […]
Cindy Sanborn, CSX’s chief operating officer CSX Corp. Fredrik Eliasson, CSX’s chief marketing officer CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corp. today announced that James M. Foote is joining the company as chief operating officer. Foote will have responsibility for both operations and sales and marketing and will be based at the company’s headquarters in […]
Willard, Ohio Google Maps JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation has shut down the hump at Willard Yard in Ohio, the latest terminal to be converted to a flat-switching facility under CEO E. Hunter Harrison and his Precision Scheduled Railroading operating plan. Last year, Willard was the fourth-busiest hump yard on the railroad, when it processed […]
A partial screen image capture of a CSX Transportation grid outlining intermodal service changes throughout its network. CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is pruning domestic intermodal service in several low-volume lanes linking the Southeast and Northeast, along with some interline service with Union Pacific, as the railroad makes sweeping changes to its network […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is reducing the number of domestic and international intermodal destinations served from its terminal in Columbus, Ohio. CSX told customers on Oct. 12 that it would be dropping outbound service from Columbus to nearly two dozen locations. Only a handful of inbound lanes are being eliminated, the railroad said. The […]
CSX Transportation’s North Baltimore Yard, near North Baltimore, Ohio. Brian Schmidt JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is preparing to scale back operations at its intermodal hub in North Baltimore, Ohio, which opened in 2011 as the $175-million centerpiece of a new intermodal strategy. The Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal was designed to support CSX’s hub-and-spoke approach […]
CSX EMD SD60Ms, SD70MACs, SD50-2s, SD40-2s, and an assortment of other GE and EMD-built locomotives sit in storage at CSX Transportation’s Russell, Ky., near Wurtland, Ky., in July 2017. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hundreds of locomotives have ended up in storage since CEO E. Hunter Harrison took the top spot at CSX Transportation earlier this year. […]
A CSX Transportation train burns at Hyndman, Pa., on Aug. 2. Safety investigators say that train crews had 33 handbrakes applied when they began down grade with a 178-car train. Pennsylvania State Police via the National Transportation Safety Board WASHINGTON — Federal investigators say that a CSX Transportation train that derailed in early August had […]
REYNOLDS, Ind. — There’s good news in the air for the metallic ore business units of BNSF Railway and CSX Transportation as plans were announced in late July to re-open shuttered mining facilities in Minnesota in addition to the opening of a new taconite pellet plant in Indiana. Republic Steel and ERP Iron Ore LLC […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are discussing shifting to an hourly-rate agreement. CSX notified the union on July 19 that it would like to replace the mileage-based pay system with an hourly rate, William Lyons, general chairman of the union’s CSX Northern Lines General Committee of Adjustment, […]
CSX trains Q696/Q697 were once daily trains on the railroad’s former C&O Big Sandy Subdivision and Clinchfield Railroad routes in the south. After being abolished from the route, Q696/Q697 have returned to the C&O and Clinchfield routes in rural Appalachia. Here, CSX Q696 rolls through Louisa, Ky., on its way to Shelby Yard in Pikeville, […]
