Trains Magazine on-line has an interesting article/interview with EHH yesterday with a couple of nuggets about possible CSX activities:
"...Container sorting has stopped at North Baltimore, which now serves as a block-swapping facility and is still handling some local intermodal containers. Harrison said CSX may have a trick up its sleeve for a future use for the $175 million terminal and hinted it might involve a western railroad looking to extend its reach into the East..."
"...Harrison also explained the rationale for pulling out of the long-sought project to raise clearances in the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore. The private-public partnership would have enabled double-stack service through the tunnel to the Port of Baltimore. Harrison says he’s philosophically opposed to receiving government money and that the East Coast has too many ports vying for traffic..."
"...CSX is planning to sell or spin off underutilized routes, including all of its trackage in Canada and related lines in the U.S. The railroad is not committed to any underutilized route, Harrison says..."
“...We’re not going to keep railroads for defensive purposes. I don’t believe in that,” Harrison says. “You’ve got a real weakness if you do that.”..."
"...CSX will pull out of Canada because its business north of the border is not successful, Harrison says. He singled out the intermodal terminal in Valleyfield, Quebec, outside Montreal, which has not lived up to expectations. The $100-million terminal opened in December 2014 but now handles just a dozen containers per day, Harrison says..."
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/20 ... csx-update