HYATTSVILLE, Md. — The city of Hyattsville and CSX have reached a $310,000 settlement agreement over costs stemming from a 2023 derailment that spilled plastic pellets in the community, the Hyattsville Life & Times reports. A locomotive and 16 cars derailed in the Sept. 23, 2023, incident near the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Chief Legal Officer Nathan Goldman will retire on Jan. 1, 2025, and will be replaced by Michael Burns, who will be promoted to senior vice president and chief legal officer effective January 2, 2025, the railroad announced today. Goldman has had a 21-year tenure with the railroad. CSX said Goldman’s leadership […]
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.— CSX is wrapping up work at Cumberland Yard in Maryland that will enable the former Baltimore & Ohio main line to handle merchandise traffic moving between the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest that’s currently routed the long way around via Selkirk, N.Y., on the former New York Central Water Level Route. CSX has been […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Schneider will launch intermodal service next month linking the Southeast with Texas and Mexico via CSX and Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s new Meridian & Bigbee corridor. The first interline trains over the new route are scheduled to roll on Dec. 1, CSX officials have said. “This represents a major leap forward […]
WASHINGTON – BNSF Railway, CSX, and Union Pacific filed lawsuits against the Federal Railroad Administration today for its failure to act on a half dozen safety waiver requests that in some cases would allow railroads to scale back visual inspections in areas where they have deployed new high-tech train and track inspection systems. The litigation […]
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — CSX is banking on a U.S. manufacturing renaissance to fuel a billion-dollar revival of its carload traffic over the next three years. A record number of industrial development projects — largely in the Southeast but also scattered around the CSX network — should produce annual merchandise volume growth of 1% to […]
ERWIN, Tenn. — Not only will CSX Transportation continues its tradition with the 82nd running of the Clinchfield Santa Train on Saturday, Nov. 23, the railroad is also operating a separate christmas-light-decorated holiday train that will visit Erwin, Tenn., on Thursday, Nov. 21 — two days before the Santa Train. In social media posts today […]
Q: Although I’m an N scale modeler, I read the review of the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy HO scale buffer car on Trains.com. Reading the description brought up a question. Do railroads designate cars to dedicated buffer service? If so, how are these cars identified as used in buffer service only? — Perry A. Pollino […]
WASHINGTON – In the wake of the disastrous hazardous materials derailment last year in East Palestine, Ohio, the Federal Railroad Administration has repeatedly said it’s doing everything it can to improve rail safety. Yet under Administrator Amit Bose the FRA has stymied Class I railroad efforts to combine automated track and equipment inspections with traditional […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —– CSX has designated the 500-plus acre RailPort Logistics Mobile in Mobile, Ala., as a Platinum CSX Select Site. Select Sites are development-ready properties along the CSX network. These properties can meet the needs of a wide variety of manufacturers, significantly reducing the time required to construct industrial facilities and ultimately bringing products […]
WASHINGTON — A CSX carman struck and killed by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a September 2023 accident at Walbridge Yard in Ohio failed to look both ways while crossing multiple tracks in the yard, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in an investigation report issued on Tuesday, Oct. 29. Contributing to the Sept. […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The 20th heritage locomotive in the CSX fleet is ES44AH No. 1902, a tribute to predecessor and Appalachian coal-hauler Clinchfield. CEO Joe Hinrichs unveiled the locomotive today in a post on LinkedIn, as has been customary. “Here is our 20th CSX Heritage Locomotive celebrating the Clinchfield Railroad. The Clinchfield Railroad was set […]
