Looking east through the side of the 24th Street bridge in downtown Birmingham, Ala., CSX offers up a variety of EMD power. This train is waiting for clearance into the railroad’s Boyles Yard. Drew Halverson photo […]
The waiting game
Railroad: CSX
An Ohio crossroads
Deshler, Ohio, sits at the intersection of two CSX Transportation main lines, its New York-Chicago trunk and its Toledo-Cincinnati route. A Chicago-bound stack train rolls across the diamond on Nov. 11, 2010. Photo by John P. Locke III […]
CSX decommissions last of ex-Monon semaphore signals NEWSWIRE
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. — CSX has removed the last semaphore signals from service on its Monon Subdivision in northwestern Indiana. The line was one of the final bastions for the signals anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. The final “blade” to fall, located at milepost 147.1 at North Crawfordsville, came down Tuesday. CSX is replacing the […]
Ask Trains from May 2009
Q In March Trains, an article on the demise of semaphore signals on the former Monon [Page 14] mentioned that CSX was doing away with lineside pole lines and their maintenance. It said the new system will use Electro Code, a system where signal communications run through the rails. How is this done?– Richard K. […]
Fostoria, Ohio
CSX AC4400CW 37 rolls past Fostoria, Ohio’s F Tower on the point of southward grain train G061 on February 18, 2001. With two railroads, three main lines, diamonds, and an active tower, Fostoria provides countless opportunities and angles for train watchers. James B. Winters A triangle of steel rails cross each other, the echoes of […]
Palmer, Mass.
A westbound CSX freight approaches the diamond at Palmer, Mass., in February of 2000. James B. Winters Palmer, Mass., is one of two New England hot spots profiled in Kalmbach’s Guide to North American Railroad Hot Spots by TRAINS Senior Editor J. David Ingles. Read below: DescriptionGrade-level crossing of CSX’s single-track Boston Subdivision (former Conrail […]
Conrail merger family tree
Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) After the failure of Penn Central in 1970, the government formed the United States Railway Association in 1973 to develop a plan to save railroading in the Northeast. The result: Consolidated Rail Corp., which on April 1, 1976, took over the properties of PC and six smaller roads. On August 22, […]
CSX merger family tree
CSX Transportation CSX Corporation was formed on November 1, 1980. Subsidiary CSX Transportation absorbed Seaboard System Railroad on July 1, 1986, and Chesapeake & Ohio, the only corporate survivor of the Chessie System Railroads, on August 31, 1987. Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) After the failure of Penn Central in 1970, the government formed the United […]
Baltimore & Ohio timeline
Baltimore & Ohio timeline: 1827 Charter approved 1828 Official start of construction on July 4 1830 Scheduled service begins, Baltimore-Ellicotts Mills, May 24 1831 Service begins to Frederick, Md. 1832 Service begins to Point of Rocks, Md. 1835 Service begins on Relay-Washington branch, construction having begun in 1833 1837 Potomac River bridged at Harper’s Ferry, […]
