CSX and Virginia

CSX Operations

  • Operates over and maintains more than 2,000 miles of track*
  • Maintains more than 1,570 public and private grade crossings in Virginia
  • Handled more than 1,190,000 carloads of freight in Virginia during 2011
  • At the end of 2011, CSX employed more than 1,220 people in Virginia
  • Throughout 2011, CSX reported nearly $92 million in compensation for employees** in Virginia
  • In 2011, CSX invested more than $71 million in its Virginia 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 Virginia include intermodal containers, coal, aggregates, packaging paper and municipal and construction waste

CSX Facilities

  • Rail yards in Clifton Forge, Newport News, Petersburg, and Richmond (Acca and Fulton)
  • Intermodal terminal in Portsmouth
  • TRANSFLO terminals in Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Richmond
  • In 2011, CSX opened the Kilby siding in Suffolk to support on-dock rail operations at APM Terminals

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 Virginia, businesses invested $2 million in new or expanded rail-served facilities on CSX or its connecting regional and short lines in 2011.
  • As a result of an ongoing partnership with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, CSX provided $5,000 grants to the cities of Waynesboro and Winchester in 2011 to assist in the development of their Main Street revitalization and economic development programs.
  • 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 November 2011, CSX sponsored a City Year service day in partnership with the City of Norfolk. Over 170 volunteers planted 19 trees and 6,000 plants to beautify the city’s downtown gateway and transform one-quarter acre of a vacant lot into a neighborhood park.
  • In 2011, CSX contributed nearly $506,000 to national, state and local non-profit organizations based in Virginia, including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Elizabeth River Project, the Newport News Green Foundation and the Portsmouth Schools 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.

Passenger and Commuter Rail Operations

  • Virginia Railway Express (VRE) operates 32 commuter trains per week day on CSX tracks through Virginia.
  • Amtrak operates approximately 60 trains per day over 34% of CSX’s railroad in every state except Tennessee, New Jersey and Delaware. Twenty-four Amtrak trains operate on CSX tracks in Virginia each day. CSX worked closely with Virginia to initiate new round-trip service between Richmond and Washington in 2010, and is actively assisting the Commonwealth in re-instituting round-trip service from Norfolk for the first time since 1978.

National Gateway

  • The National Gateway is an approximately $850 million, multi-state, public-private infrastructure project to improve the flow of freight between the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest by clearing key freight corridors for double-stack rail service. The National Gateway has received considerable state and federal funding and construction on this key initiative is well underway. CSX is investing approximately $575 million in the project.
  • The National Gateway network will greatly contribute to and facilitate the anticipated container volume growth at the Port of Virginia.

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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