WASHINGTON — CSX Transportation has asked for a delay in the evidentiary phase of the Surface Transportation Board hearing over Amtrak Gulf Coast service — but the public will not be informed why.
A filing posted to the STB website today (Wednesday, Feb. 23) says the railroad “does not likely make this request, given the prior instructions by the Board regarding the procedural schedule and the agency’s workload, However” … after which approximately four and a half lines of the document have been redacted, before the filing resumes, “Granting this request for a three-week delay to the hearing will avoid any prejudice to CSXT’s abiity to put on an effective case in chief.”
The filing request the hearing, scheduled to begin March 9 instead is held April 5-6, with April 7 held in reserve if a third day is needed.
The filing says Norfolk Southern, the Port of Mobile, Ala., and Amtrak do not oppose the request. Amtrak confirmed that it does not object in a statement to Trains News Wire, adding that it “believes the dates of April 5 and 6 (with the 7th as needed) are sufficient.”
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