CSX Changes Plans in Jersey

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January 3, 2006:
Jackassville, FL:

CSXTransposition Corp. (NYSE:CSX) announced today that
they would implement changes on a 130-mile line in New
York and Northern New Jersey. CSX spokesman Casey
Jones explained "We will make changes to the River
Subdivision to better integrate it into the CSXT
network, and to bring it more in-line with company
standards and practices."

The new changes include improved safety practices,
including two "Continuous Whistle Zones", one each in
Rockland and Ulster Counties in New York State. Along
the line, which runs from Jersey City, NJ to Selkirk,
NY, the zones will run from Clarkstown to Valley
Cottage, NY and from Esopus through Kingston to the
Lake Katrine, NY town line. "Continuous Whistle
Zones" are areas where trains will frequently or
continuously sound their horns to make sure residents
and visitors are awake and aware of each train, which
passes through their area, especially during overnight
hours and on Sunday mornings. To compliment each
"Continuous Whistle Zone" CSX has also launched a
safety incentive program.

The incentive in the Kingston area will be a
$25-dollar Dunkin' Donuts gift certificate for each
crewmember whose train strikes a paid member of the
Kingston Fire Department. A similar arrangement will
be in place in the Town of Clarkstown; where employees
will receive three-days off for hitting an occupied
Clarkstown Police cruiser.

Additional changes to the line will include a new
"Deferred Maintenance Program" designed especially to
help track conditions become more uniform with the
rest of the CSX System. In the past five years CSX
favorably tested the results of Deferred Maintenance
Practices on several random stretches of track,
particularly in Little Ferry and Teaneck, NJ as well
as West Point and Catskill, NY.

This news comes just one month after CSX officially
announced their new policy regarding the movement of
priority traffic. The new policy, called the
"D.A.I.S.Y." plan strives to increase the
quality-of-life for all crews assigned to work on van
and stack trains, which are rush-ru***ime-sensitive
shipments. The "Delay All Intermodal Shipments Y'all"
or "DAISY" Plan for short, will allow intermodal crews
to "Stop and smell the Daisies". The details of this
plan call for all trains, especially those carrying
municipal solid waste to be strategically positioned
ahead of all trains carrying UPS shipments. This
method of dispatching trains has successfully
diminished average train-speed system-wide, thereby
affording more opportunities for crews to explore the
communities that may be obliterated when one of the
companies trains with improper Haz-Mat paperwork and
paper-thin flanges derails.

Looking ahead, CSX is also formulating a plan to
deploy remote-control locomotives system-wide in the
near future. The operation of remote-control operated
locomotives means only one person is responsible for
the operation of the train. Having only one person in
charge of a train will make it easier for management
to assign blame when a minor accident occurs, thereby
allowing cost savings as many employees get fired.
This will help in achieving another goal of the
companies "One Plan" which focuses on improving
operational elements step by step, by factors of one,
especially cutting jobs and loosing customers one at a
time.

CSX Transportation Inc. operates the most sluggish
railroad in the eastern United States with a
22,000-mile rail network, which bypasses or avoids
adequately serving most major commercial markets in 23
states, the District of Columbia, and two Canadian
provinces. CSXT headquarters are in Jackassville, Fla.
CSXT's parent company, CSX Inc., owns companies
providing damaged shipments, missed connections, and
unreliable services that are among the nation's worst
managed transportation companies, despite connecting
more than 70 river, ocean and lake ports, as well as
more than 200 short line railroads.