by conrail6479
is csx turning into another PENNCENTERAL?? with these derailments i looks like it but time will tell.
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CSX should have sold the ex CR territory to the UP....it would have made senseFor whom??? Not for CSX!
ever notice how many times this refrence and discussion comes up when CSX suffers a derailment on the former CR lines? Issues are not the sameThe issues are the same... no accident is acceptable... but the statistics aren't. Consider the facts: CR accidents 1995-99 (Jan-Jun) vs CSX 2004-2007 (Jan-Jun) (source: FRA): CR's percentage of accidents related to track conditions averaged 25%, CSX's ave was 28%, a 13% increase. But wait, before anyone spouts off about big, bad CSX... consider this: CSX's train accident rate over the same period is 19% LOWER than CR's; CSX's personal injury rate is a whopping 43% LOWER. And CSX's incident rate has a steady downward trend (CSX's 2007 train accident rate is about HALF of CR's prior to the breakup): Bottom line, CSX is proving to be a much safer railroad than CR ever was. Like it or not, those "ignorant, arrogant Florida jag-offs" have actually helped create a safer working environment!
It's an increase of 3 percentage points, but a 13 percent increase.
No arguments with you here, Roadster. After overspending on CR and the traffic slump several years back, there's a lot of investment catch-up still to do.
To your point about the other crews grumbling, I'll paraphrase something I was told almost 30 years ago: "Railroaders always end up talking about four things: how much money they made, who's working where, how lousy management is, and sex. And they're usually too busy talking about the first three to talk about the last!"