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On February 4, 2018, the southbound Amtrak Silver Star No. 91 passenger train from New York City to Miami collided with a stationary CSX Transportation freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, just south of the state's capital of Columbia on CSX's Columbia Subdivision. Two Amtrak crew members were killed and 116 other crew and passengers were ...
As the CSX train rounded the curve, the engineer of the Metro-North train saw sparks and dust. He realized that some of the freight's cars had derailed, and immediately notified that train's engineer by radio. The CSX engineer applied the air brakes at full pressure, and soon the train's own emergency brakes took over. When the train came to a ...
[7] [8] A northbound freight train, Q636-15, was directed onto a siding where the crew uncoupled its locomotive, CSX #8392 (another EMD SD40-2), and waited for the runaway train to pass. #8392 had a crew of two: Jesse Knowlton, an engineer with 31 years of service; and Terry L. Forson, a conductor with about one year's experience. [9]
Aug. 10—CUMBERLAND — CSX has told its conductor trainees to return to their home terminals for additional training following accidents that resulted in the deaths of two trainees, including ...
Earlier that year, he observed, there had been a derailment on the New Haven Line serving Connecticut and Westchester County suburbs along Long Island Sound, a CSX freight derailment on the Hudson Line on the very next curve to the south of where the Spuyten Duyvil wreck had occurred, [46] on the other side of the Spuyten Duyvil station, and an ...
Why would a freight train have a conductor? Around here they are manned by an engineer and a brakeman. 70.105.242.162 08:39, 5 February 2019 (UTC) Conductor is the term used on railroads in the United States which indicates the person who is in charge of general operation of the train, even though he/she may be the junior employee.
CSX began operating its trains on its portion of the Conrail network on June 1, 1999. CSX now serves much of the Eastern United States, with a few routes into nearby Canadian cities. The two competitors were unwilling to give one company full control of busy industrial areas in Detroit, Philadelphia, and northern New Jersey (the Chemical Coast).
Freight transported by Seminole Gulf Railway includes lumber, propane, stone, steel, scrap metal, and other commodities. [4] Freight is interchanged with CSX usually once or twice a week on each line. On the Fort Myers Division, freight trains between the yard in Fort Myers and Arcadia are known as the Desoto Turn. [5]