Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

CSX detours 16-plus trains per day as Baltimore tunnel work begins

BALTIMORE — Just hours after empty coal train E730 rolled through the Howard Street Tunnel at 3:35 a.m. Feb. 1, a small army of contractors and CSX workers arrived to begin removing the 1.7-mile tunnel’s single track.

The 100-car coal train was the last through the 1895 Baltimore & Ohio tunnel, which will be shut down for six to eight months as work on the double-stack clearance project continues around the clock, seven days a week.

For now that means detouring 16 scheduled trains per day — five...

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Improved Cumberland, Maryland, yard helps CSX reduce train starts

NEW YORK — CSX is moving more tonnage on fewer trains this year as part of a significant reduction in the number of road train starts.

The 10% decline in coal volume this year has contributed to the reduction, Chief Financial Officer Sean Pelkey told an investor conference Tuesday. “But there’s a significant amount of reengineering of the network,” he said. “The Cumberland Yard … has been a big driver of that.”

CSX has completed a reconfiguration of the yard in Cumberland, Maryland, that nearly...

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FreightWaves Classics/Leaders: Jervis Langdon led railroads during very turbulent times

A Penn Central boxcar sits on a siding. (Photo: Penn Central Railroad Historical Society)

Jervis Langdon, Jr. was born in 1905 in Elmira, New York. He was part of the fourth generation of a family of industrialists with ties to the railroad industry. His grandfather was Mark Twain’s friend and brother-in-law, and his uncle was president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

A Lehigh Valley Railroad boxcar. (Photo: James Doty/pintrest.com)A Lehigh Valley Railroad boxcar that illustrates the railroad’s route.
(Photo: James Doty/pintrest.com)
Jervis Langdon, Jr. as a young man. (Photo: geni.com)A young Jervis Langdon, Jr. (Photo: geni.com)

Langdon graduated from Cornell University in 1927 and began his...

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