Approximately 270 employees will remain at the shops and the affected workers are eligible to seek positions at other nearby facilities, the article says.
A source familiar with the matter tells Trains News Wire the furloughed workers include mainly third shift shop workers and clerk positions. The locomotive shops are responsible for repainting and servicing locomotives and are the head shop for the railroad’s GP38-3 and GP40-3 rebuild program. The EMD-built locomotives are numbered in the 2000 and 6500 series and are rebuilt mainly from former GP38-2 and GP40-2 locomotives.
The shops also once managed the SD40-3 rebuild program, but that work has since been contracted to Wabtec Corp’s Motive Power Industries in Boise, Idaho.
The Huntington shops have been profiled in two recent Trains News Wire stories after shop workers painted two locomotives in CSX predecessor schemes. The locomotives included a Chessie-painted Chesapeake & Ohio B30-7 No. 8272 and C&O SD40 No. 7538. The B30-7 was recently delivered to the Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, Pa., while C&O No. 7538 is headed to the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society in Clifton Forge, Va.
The Huntington facility is a former C&O facility and is located on CSX’s Kanawha Subdivision located between Russell, Ky., and Charleston, W.Va.
Now what happens when the CSX fleet of locomotives needs maintence and up keeping , let me guess their going to out source the work to a private company and pay threw the nose for it yea that’s cost effective. NOT
Who didn’t see this move coming? I’m just thankful that the HLS are still open for now.
Just a thought, perhaps the business is down enough that they simply don’t need as many people. Why should a company keep people employed when they are not needed? Just because we all want them to? Blame EHH if you will, but when you have newer locos stored you don’t need to rebuild any old ones!
Thanks you asshole stockholders that voted EHH in, and his 84M. So now the poor working force has to pay.
Also, apparently 45 folks were laid off from the Cumberland shop back in May.
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Here is a thought. No salary increase or bonuses for the present Executive Staff based on any future financial improvements since the arrival of EHH. Why should they reward themselves and pad their wallets on the efforts of someone they brought in from the outside who is doing things the present management couldnt figure out??? The stockholders, instead of praising EHH, should be asking themselves “Why have we been paying out bonuses and such to the present staff all this time if we had to bring in an outsider to make real improvements?” If the field people are seeing job cuts and reductions I see no reason why the present management should see any type of bonus based on the efforts of someone else.
Gotta pay EHH his 84 million. Cut the workers, that’ll do it.
Less employees = lower operating ratio = higher profits and another hefty bonus for EHH. Everyone should feel good about making CSX great again!
Very indicative of a company not anticipating growth.