CSX: ‘Solid Earnings Growth’ for 3Q22 (Updated, Cowen)

“I would like to thank Jim Foote and the entire CSX team for delivering another quarter of solid earnings growth,” CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs said during the Class I railroad’s

Manna Capital Partners’ beverage production and distribution complex will be constructed in Montgomery, Ala., at a CSX Select Site. Operations are slated to begin in early 2025. (Rendering Courtesy of the Alabama Governor’s Office/Hal Yeager)

Industrial Development Briefs: CSX, ACWR

Manna Capital Partners is planning a $600 million beverage production and distribution complex at a CSX-served site in Montgomery, Ala. Also, Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway (ACWR) has opened the Midland Logistics Park in Cabarrus County, N.C.

The Navy Base Intermodal Facility is set to open in July 2025. (Rendering/SCPA)

SC Ports Breaks Ground on Navy Base Intermodal Facility

SC Ports officials and elected officials gathered on Oct. 17 in North Charleston to celebrate the groundbreaking of the rail-served Navy Base Intermodal Facility, which will provide near-dock rail and inner-harbor barge operation to the Port of Charleston to “ensure fluidity and capacity for the Southeast supply chain.”

Class I Briefs: BNSF, CSX

Feature film “Train Time” highlights BNSF trains and team members. Also, CSX joins Operation Gratitude to assemble and provide care packages for deployed troops.

Wabtec in an Oct. 17 Twitter post wrote: “Last week, execs from @CNRailway visited our Ft. Worth facility to see the 1st of 50 modernized locos to roll off the line. The upgrades increase the locomotive’s lifespan, improve operational efficiencies and reduce emissions. #WabtecFreightServices.” (Photograph Courtesy of Wabtec, via Twitter)

First Look: CN’s Dash 9, Transformed

Wabtec earlier this month debuted the first of 50 modernized locomotives for CN at its Fort Worth, Tex., plant.

John M. Lewis Jr., CEO, Charlotte Area Transit System (left); Jim Umpleby, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc. (center); and David A. Fink, former President of Guilford Transportation Industries, who died Oct. 11.

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David “Dave” Andrew Fink, former President of Guilford Transportation Industries, died Oct. 11. He was 86. Also, John M. Lewis Jr. is stepping down as CEO of Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), and Jim Umpleby will continue to lead Caterpillar Inc. following a waiver of the company’s retirement policy.

(IMC Photograph)

IMC Expands Into Ohio Valley

Ohio Intermodal Services, an IMC company, has opened an 11-acre yard in Louisville, Ky., near CSX and Norfolk Southern and 14 miles from the Port of Louisville.

FRCF President and CEO Jillian Crane (left) and CSX Vice President of Corporate Communications Bryan Tucker (right)

Class I Briefs: CSX, UP

First Responders Children’s Foundation (FRCF), in partnership with CSX, announces recipients of the 2022 CSX Pride in Service Scholarship. Also, Union Pacific (UP) announces extension of Carta Porte grace period for Mexico shipments; and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts discusses proposed rail park with leaders in Lincoln County.

(Photograph Courtesy of CP)
Commentary

Cowen: ‘Looking Down the Windy Tracks’

A strike has been averted for now as the major unions reached tentative agreements. Contracts details are expected to be in line with the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations. The railroads will have to gradually pass through costs as contracts are renewed if they want to keep margins intact. This may prove difficult as we head into an economic slowdown. We continue to favor Canadian Pacific (CP) in the rail group.

CSX Supports Hurricane Ian Relief Efforts

CSX is contributing $200,000 to support relief and recovery efforts under way in the Florida and South Carolina communities affected by Hurricane Ian, the Class I railroad reported on Sept. 30.

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