I just watched a train go by on the old Georgia Railroad (now CSX) while eating ribs and brisket while the Navy game is on and Navy has a 20 point lead and the ball. Life is good
Other runners up: Caltrans and Cap Corridor and IIRC maybe the surfliner in Cali (BNSF is one of the less awful to passengers freight railroads) and VPRA's trackage in VA(owned by CSX+NS but with almost all daytime trackage leased to pax operator). Both of which post high and consistent ridership.
I started working at CSX/SeaboardSystem too late to get free rides. Old timers got passes at least for the Antrak trains that ran on SBD tracks.
Rail workers deserve paid sick leave. USDOT and USDOL are right—it's time for CSX, Norfolk Southern and other Class I railroads to guarantee this basic benefit to ALL employees. Ohio's communities depend on healthy, focused workers to keep our railways safe. Let's finish the job!
That’s unlikely to happen when CSX want to move Coal Trains at 25mph
lololol no the MARC is great when csx lets it run
Biden's Acting Sec Labor and Sec Transporation wrote today to CEOs of big rail firms CSX, CN, and CPKC, urging they "immediately" provide paid sick days to workers who don't have them: "Not providing workers sick days presents unnecessary risk." JOE IS PRAXIS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Biden Administration is pressuring three major rail companies to provide their workers with paid sick days, aiming to expand the benefit into an industrywide norm.
This isn't CSX as someone who actually *lives* in Hamilton County. This is a Class III railroad, Central Railroad of Indiana for where it happened. Also specifically per a video shared from local news media, it was the tank car itself that popped up the leak while parked and not moving. So it