CSX
Quick Facts
CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., owns companies providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services that are among the nation’s leading transportation companies, connecting more than 70 river, ocean and lake ports, as well as more than 200 short line railroads.
CSX’s goal, advanced at each of its business units, is to provide safe, efficient, competitive transportation and related services to customers, deliver superior value to the company’s shareholders and make a positive difference in the communities that it serves.
The 32,000 employees of CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT), the rail unit of CSX Corporation, provide rail freight transportation over a network of more than 22,000 route miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces.
In addition, the company connects to 70 ocean, river and lake ports and to 200 short line and regional railroads.
CSXT provides essential transportation services to a wide range of customers across a broad spectrum of industries including: coal, chemicals, automobiles, minerals, agricultural products, food and consumer goods, metals, forest and paper products and phosphates and fertilizer. Moreover, the company operates almost exclusively on a privately owned rail infrastructure that is maintained by CSXT.
CSXT Network and Operations
- Operates an average of 1,200 trains per day
- Transports an average of 20,000 carloads per day
- Maintains a fleet of more than 3,700 locomotives
- Maintains a fleet of nearly 105,000 freight cars
- Provides service to every major population and industrial center east of the Mississippi River
- Provides service to 36 automobile distribution centers
- Provides service to more than 165 bulk intermodal distribution terminals and rail-to-truck bulk transload facilities
- Provides service to more than 130 active coal mines, and serves 105 coal-fired power plants and cogeneration facilities
