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 […]
HYNDMAN, Pa. — First responders are keeping residents away from a blaze from a derailed CSX Transportation freight train Wednesday morning. An eastbound CSX Transportation freight train derailed just west Hyndman, between Bedford, Pa., and Cumberland, Md., early Wednesday morning causing a fire and local evacuations, the Associated Press Reports. The incident happened around 5 […]
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, […]
A CSX conductor boards CSX EMD SD40-3 No. 4025 in Dante, Va. Chase Gunnoe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Railroaders at CSX Transportation will soon be responsible for purchasing their own safety boots and reflective safety apparel. As of Aug. 1, railroad officials say they’ll end the company’s safety boots and high visibility bundle program. CSX currently […]
A Morley, Tenn., based pusher has just exited a helper pocket in Morley and will soon assist a 100-car train across Duff Mountain on CSX’s former L&N KD Subdivision in rural Tennessee. Chase Gunnoe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is in the early stages of getting rid of locomotive pusher operations systemwide. The news was […]
An aerial view of the Port of Wilmington, N.C., which will begin rail-intermodal service to Charlotte, N.C., beginning July 28. North Carolina State Ports Authority WILMINGTON, N.C. — North Carolina port officials are enthusiastic about a new scheduled intermodal service between the port of Wilmington and Charlotte, N.C. CSX will begin the Queen City Express […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia jury says that CSX Transportation is partially to blame in the death of Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant who was killed by a train while trespassing on a railroad bridge in Georgia, the Associated Press reports. Jones was part of a film crew who was on its first day […]
A conductor watches the reverse move of a pair of locomotives about to couple onto a freight train on CSX’s former Chesapeake & Ohio main line in West Virginia. Chase Gunnoe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation is continuing to make changes to its operational structure, especially through a series of recent operating rule abolishments. On […]
A lower priority train waits out the passage of a group of higher priority trains rolling through a work zone near North East, Pa., in August 2010. Marcus W. Stevens JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The implementation of precision scheduled railroading continues to drive operational improvements at CSX Transportation, even if the results are not reflected in […]
An eastbound CSX coal train passes a refinery near Catlettsburg, Ky., on the railroad’s Big Sandy Subdivision. The eastern Kentucky route was once dispatched by Huntington Division dispatchers in nearby Huntington, W.Va., but is now managed by the railroad’s Louisville Division offices in Kentucky. Soon, this route will be managed by Jacksonville-based dispatchers. Chase Gunnoe […]
