CSX hit with 4 accidents already this year
This year has started badly for C-S-X, a Jacksonville-based railway. It's trains have been involved in four accidents. Three are being investigated by the Federal Railroad Administration's main office. An 80-car freight train had come off the track, sending 12 cars filled with hazardous chemicals into front yards in this residential neighborhood in Bullitt County, Kentucky, about half an hour south of Louisville. That crash followed an accident in central Kentucky the day before in which four cars slipped onto the mainline, running for miles before hitting locomotives that the company had put out to stop them. That crash released some 30-thousand gallons of flammable butyl acetate. The fuel floating on the Kentucky River caught fire. On February Sixth there was a crash in West Virginia in which 18 cars, 10 of which were carrying hazardous chemicals, derailed in West Virginia. No chemicals spilled.
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