WASHINGTON, D.C. – Watco hopes to begin operating a pair of CSX Transportation routes in Illinois and Indiana early next month. The Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad will take over CSX’s Decatur Subdivision in Illinois and the neighboring Danville Secondary in Indiana on or around Sept. 6, pending regulatory approval, Watco said in a filing […]
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Analysts ask why Union Pacific isn’t more like CSX NEWSWIRE

OMAHA, Neb. — CSX Transportation’s financial turnaround — including a record-low quarterly operating ratio of 58.6 percent — may increase Wall Street pressure on the rest of the American railroad industry. Analysts compared Union Pacific’s second-quarter results with those of CSX and during the railroad’s earnings call on Thursday asked executives why UP doesn’t measure […]
CSX CEO: Service improvements will require cultural change at railroad NEWSWIRE

CSX Transportation CEO James Foote CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation’s key performance metrics continued to improve in the second quarter, except for the measurement that matters most: On-time performance. Compared to a year ago, CSX’s on-time originations fell 2 points, to 83 percent, while on-time arrivals dropped 2 points, to 59 percent for […]
More intermodal changes coming to CSX Transportation NEWSWIRE

Late CSX Transportation CEO E. Hunter Harrison gestures during a Surface Transportation Board hearing in 2017. Harrison gained notoriety among shippers for up-ending the railroad’s intermodal network. Harrison’s successor, James Foote, says there is still more work to do. R.G. Edmonson JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is in the midst of another revamp of its […]
Watco to acquire first CSX Transportation line spinoffs in Illinois, Indiana NEWSWIRE

WASHINGTON — Watco is the winning bidder for CSX Transportation’s Decatur and Danville Secondary subdivisions in Illinois and Indiana. The Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad will be the new name for the 126.7 miles of track that Watco will acquire from CSX as the Class I railroad seeks to prune its network of lower-density, non-core […]
Baltimore & Ohio, circa 1950

Here’s a rare chance to look at a Trains map before it appears in the magazine. This foldout map was originally scheduled to appear in the July issue, in time for the Baltimore & Ohio’s 190th anniversary, but as occasionally happens, outside forces intervened (in this case, short hospital stays for both the mapmaker and […]
CSX Transportation preparing to re-open hump at Radnor Yard in Nashville NEWSWIRE

CSX Corp. Radnor Yard CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation will reopen the hump at Nashville’s Radnor Yard within the next few weeks. The hump was idled in July 2017 as part of the broad operational changes made by then-CEO E. Hunter Harrison, who converted eight of CSX’s 12 hump yards to flat-switching facilities […]
NC and CSX reach deal for funding Rocky Mount intermodal terminal NEWSWIRE

Rocky Mount, N.C., and vicinity Kalmbach Media/Rick Johnson State of North Carolina RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina will shoulder three-quarters of the cost to build a CSX Transportation intermodal terminal in Rocky Mount, N.C., state transportation and railroad officials announced today. “This facility will make eastern North Carolina even more attractive to businesses looking to […]
Maryland city looks for resolution after CSX strikes bridges with intermodal train NEWSWIRE

A CSX Transportation train sits under the Washington Street bridge in Cumberland, Md., after striking it Thursday, June 21, 2018. The train also struck the Fayette Street bridge. The extent of damage to the bridges was not immediately clear to bystanders. Cumberland Times-News/ Steve Bittner CUMBERLAND, Md. — What happens now is the big question […]
The run-around

CSX Transportation local D743 heads north into Deshler, Ohio, to run around its train and head back south to Lima on Feb. 18, 2018. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]
CSX unveils ‘Spirit of Ravenna’ decal on GE locomotive NEWSWIRE

CSXT ET44AH No. 3440 with its new ‘Spirit of Ravenna’ logo on display during Franklin Park (Ill.) Days on June 8, 2018. Marshall W. Beecher RAVENNA, Ky. – In recognition of CSX Transportation’s recent partnership with the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., in Ravenna, Ky., the Class I railroad has placed a special Sprit of Ravenna […]