CSX and New Jersey

CSX Operations

  • Operates over and maintains nearly 1,000 miles of track*
  • Maintains nearly 120 public and private grade crossings in New Jersey
  • Handled more than 831,000 carloads of freight in New Jersey during 2011
  • At the end of 2011, CSX employed nearly 230 people in New Jersey
  • Throughout 2011, CSX reported more than $18 million in compensation for employees** in New Jersey
  • In 2011, CSX invested more than $2 million in its New Jersey network. In addition, the company invested more than $948 million in freight cars and other rolling assets to serve customers through its rail system
  • CSX carries a variety of commodities important to our economy and way of life, including consumer products, automobiles, food and agriculture products, coal and chemicals. Products shipped in New Jersey include intermodal containers, ethanol, light trucks, municipal and construction waste and refrigerated food products

CSX-Served Facilities

  • Major rail yards in Newark (Oak Island), South Kearny, North Bergen, and Manville
  • Intermodal terminals North Bergen, Little Ferry, South Kearny, Elizabeth (Millennium Marine Rail on-dock terminal), and Newark (PNCT on-dock terminal)
  • TRANSFLO terminal in Elizabeth
  • Automotive distribution centers in Ridgefield and Newark (Doremus 1 & 2)

Environmental Advantages of Rail

  • CSX achieved its voluntary 8% greenhouse gas emissions intensity reduction goal one year ahead of schedule. This achievement reduced emissions by more than 1.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas – equivalent to consuming more than 3.5 million fewer barrels of oil.
  • Since 1980, CSX has improved its fuel efficiency by more than 90%, and with constant innovation, freight rail becomes more efficient every day.
  • In the past 10 years, CSX has invested more than $1.75 billion to upgrade its fleet of fuel-efficient locomotives.
  • CSX introduced a carbon calculator on www.CSX.com that makes it easy for customers and consumers to understand the emissions savings that freight rail delivers.
  • On average, railroads are three or more times more fuel efficient than highway transportation.
  • Shifting 10% of long-haul freight from the highway to the railway would reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 12 million tons and would increase fuel savings by nearly one billion gallons each year.

CSX and the Community

  • In partnership with state and local economic development agencies in New Jersey, businesses invested more than $2 million in new or expanded rail-served facilities on CSX or its connecting regional and short lines in 2011. These investments will generate an estimated 27 new jobs at those businesses.
  • CSX is a National Leadership Sponsor of City Year, a non-profit organization working to enact positive change in schools and communities throughout the country. CSX executives and other employees routinely donate their time and energy to community outreach programs organized by City Year.
  • In 2011, CSX contributed thousands of dollars to national organizations and those in New Jersey, including National Safe Place, Alliance for Community Trees, the Nature Conservancy, National FFA Foundation, local schools and community organizations.
  • CSX is proud of its 150-year history of service to America’s military. One in five CSX employees has served in the armed forces.

Port Reading Junction (Manville)

  • This work will enable simultaneous train movements through a busy junction that serves CSX, NS and Conrail that can currently only accommodate one train at a time. The project involves work on each of the railroads involved. Conrail’s element is complete and CSX’s element will follow this year. This project was funded with SAFTEA-LU Liberty Corridor earmark money as well as Conrail, CSX and NS funds.

 
“Trent” Interlocking (West Trenton)

  • This project will add a higher-speed crossover at CP “Trent” in West Trenton, New Jersey. Most of the project is funded with federal Congestion, Mitigation, Air Quality (CMAQ) funds administered through the New Jersey State DOT.

Improving Public Safety

  • CSX works with community partners year-round to improve track and grade crossings and close crossings where possible. These initiatives greatly improve safety across the CSX network.


* Miles of track includes single main track, other main track, yard tracks and sidings as of December 31, 2011.
** This figure includes current and former employees.

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