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[quote user="KCSfan"]It would be interesting to see some statistics on mainline derailments per ton-mile of freight carried. Exclude those ocurring within yard limits that happen frequently but because of the low speeds involved rarely present a serious danger to the public health and welfare. I'd bet the CSX would top the list of all the Class I roads but that's just a gut feeling that could be confirmed by some meaningful comparative measurement.Another interesting statistic would be a comparison of mainline derailments to $ per mile spent on track maintenance. Common sense tells me there is a correlation between the two. Here again I think the CSX would prove to have the worst record. We are all aware of the scathing FRA report on CSX track conditions that was issued two or three years ago. [/quote] It would be interesting to see that info. Too bad not even Trains mag could get the strait dope out of CSX's books if it tried. I'd imagine with the swell of derailment related liability growing, the true figures on that are locked away. I'm just waiting to hear CSX's excuse on why all those years of deferred maintenance (so that stockholder dividends could be fat) should now be corrected at taxpayer expense. I expect the reasoning to be a loo loo. What I'd be real interested in knowing is, of these latest series of derailmants (forgetting the run away, of course), is how many have happened on vital mainlines versus  on out of the way backwater spurs and the sort? CSX keeps the mainline through Garrett around here looking pretty shiny. So it would be hard to say they neglect it. So priority likely plays a factor
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