New issues continue to develop while other problem areas are improving, CSX Transportation said in an update today (April 7, 2025) on storm recovery efforts.
Also, BNSF has provided an update on one of two weather-related derailments that closed the Thayer South Subdivision in Arkansas.
CSX had highlighted three areas as especially problematic in a Sunday customer advisory [see “Storms impact CSX …,” Trains News Wire, March 6, 2025]. Two of those — the Memphis Subdivision between Bruceton and Memphis, Tenn., and the CC Subdivision, between Hemphill and Bell County, Ky. — have seen water recede, allowing rail traffic to resume.
However, two other areas are now of concern. The Mainline Subdivision, between Nashville and Louisville, Ky., has seen traffic halted as waters rose in the Rolling Fork River. The railroad is rerouting traffic, and says service recovery may take several days. On the LH & STL Subdivision, between Evansville, Ind., and Louisville, rising waters in the Ohio River are being closely monitored and may pose challenges for train movement.
BNSF, meanwhile, informed customers that it now expects service to be restored through Mammoth Spring (Ark.) State Park by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, following a bridge washout that derailed a stationary train. That incident occurred early on Saturday, April 5, and was one of two derailments approximately 120 miles apart in the area, which had been hit by a major storm [see “Stationary BNSF train derailed …,” News Wire, April 5, 2025].
Heaven forbid, they might actually have to take the Illinois & Indiana Sub and put them back into service to reach Cincinnati.