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Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.

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 #1267591  by MEC407
 
From The Baltimore Sun:
The Baltimore Sun wrote:A CSX freight train carrying about 8,000 tons of coal partially derailed in Bowie early Thursday morning, according to CSX officials and the Prince George's County Fire & EMS Department.

The incident marked the third major Mid-Atlantic incident for the railroad since Wednesday, when a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in Lynchburg, Va., and a massive retaining wall collapsed onto freight tracks in Baltimore.
. . .
The line where the derailment occurred in Bowie is also a freight line, officials said — raising questions about the combined impact the Baltimore and Bowie incidents will have on freight movements in the region, including out of the port of Baltimore.
. . .
No injuries were reported in the Bowie incident, which firefighters and hazardous-materials personnel responded to at about 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of Old Annapolis Road and Laurel Bowie Road, Prince George's fire officials said.

The train of three locomotives and 63 cars was headed from a coalmine in southwestern Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh, to Woodzell in southern Maryland, Sease said.
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 #1267687  by mmi16
 
Weather wasn't kind to anyone in the Mid-Atlantic states this week. I suspect weather has had a hand in all the events.