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7 unusual facts about CSX Transportation


Bank Street Grounds

The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority ("SORTA") and CSX Transportation are current tenants on the Bank Street Grounds property.

CSX Transportation

Another style of unit train is a local trash train, D765, runs between Derwood and Dickerson, both in Maryland.

D765

A CSX Transportation trash train running between Derwood and Dickerson, Maryland, USA

Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana

A CSX rail line (originally laid down by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad) runs south from Frankfort through the middle of the township.

Lake Erie College

In October 2007, CSX Transportation opened a temporary outreach center at Lake Erie College to assist evacuees after a local train derailment.

North Carolina Department of Transportation

A small portion between Raleigh and Cary is co-operated with Norfolk Southern by CSX Transportation.

Rough Mountain Wilderness

The eastern trailhead is located next to railroad tracks leased by the Buckingham Branch Railroad from CSX Transportation, so access to the trail from either terminus may not be possible without trespassing.


Ashland, Virginia

Originally known as Slash Cottage, Ashland is located on U.S. Route 1, the Old Washington Highway (a stage route between Richmond and Washington, DC) and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, a busy north-south route now owned by CSX Transportation.

Interstate 87

It immediately traverses the Albany Pine Bush Preserve and passes west of Rensselaer Lake before crossing CSX Transportation's Hudson Subdivision and running parallel to Wolf Road, a business thoroughfare through the town of Colonie.

Maryland Route 135

MD 135 heads straight southeast toward a grade-separated crossing of CSX's Mountain Subdivision very close to the railroad's crossing of the Eastern Continental Divide.

Meriwether, Louisville

Its boundaries are the CSX railroad tracks to the north, Shelby Street to the east, E Brandeis Ave to the south and I-65 to the west.

Ontario Midland Railroad

The railroad also operates a line formerly operated by Conrail, Penn Central, Pennsylvania Railroad from Wallington, where it meets the Hojack, to Newark to interchange with CSX's ex-Conrail Chicago Line.

Schneider National

Schneider National's Intermodal department works directly with the major North American rail carriers, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway, Kansas City Southern de México, and Canadian National Railway.

Transportation in Cincinnati

Several freight railroads service Cincinnati, the largest being CSX Transportation which operates a railroad yard west of Interstate 75.

West Trenton Railroad Bridge

The West Trenton Railroad Bridge is a concrete arch bridge carrying the CSX and SEPTA West Trenton rail lines across the Delaware River between Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania and Ewing Township, New Jersey.

Western Maryland Rail Trail

In August 1990, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources purchased the right-of-way from 1/2 mile west of Fort Frederick State Park to Little Orleans through Hancock from CSX Transportation.


see also

Old Main Line

Old Main Line Subdivision of CSX Transportation (and formerly of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)