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CSX-Sucks.com, SUCKS!
« Thread Started on Jan 22, 2008, 6:47pm »

What is CSX-sucks.com? It is a disgruntled employee-created website aiming to attract negative attention from the President, CEO and staff of CSX. This website uses many photos of derailment or otherwise destructive train events, and 90% of the time, claims that the photos were taken on or of CSX property, even though they have no proof to back up their statements. I can find at least 50 photoshopped or non-CSX photos on there, that are being claimed to be real CSX photos.

Also on this website, it is said that all other Class I railroad organizations, along with several remote railroad related companies, have viewed this website and supported it. If you think about it, it truly sounds absurd. Why would any management of Norfolk Southern, for example, be wasting time on a feeble website aimed at their competitor? It is foolish.

Court cases and many other court and lawsuit-related events, that are also not true, are displayed on this website. This website claims to have beaten CSX is many trial cases, and also claims that they have signed an agreement with CSX, allowing this website to display images of CSX property in damage, etc. This is NOT the case, as CSX management has been trying to have this website eliminated for a couple years now due to the mere fact that they are using false and fake images of damaged CSX property.

There are numerous photos on this website that include CSX locomotives damaged, destroyed, battered and bruised, that happened while the locomotive was on another railroad's property. Just because the locomotive is owned by CSX, they think that this gives them the right to post the photo.

Truth of the matter is, all railroads have pros and cons. Railroads don't do whatever railfans want, and don't always please consumers, customers or the general public. Everyone has their own opinion, and no matter what choice CSX makes, someone out there will say it was a bad choice. CSX spent $203 million in track repairs, replaced over 50,000 concrete ties and spent $279 million on tie repairs in 2005. This is about equal to the amount of money Norfolk Southern, their competitor, spent on track repair in 2005. CSX even spent more money in other MofW categories.

CSX is hauling freight daily. Many people hide behind the "you haven't worked for them" or "CSX has negative experiences more than other railroads" statements. These statements are only true in some instances. All other railroads have had an equal amount or maybe even worse problems in their pasts too, CSX is just the unfortunate one who gets the most ignorant remarks.

Alot of people also say that CSX does not spend enough money on track repairs, as mentioned earlier. CSX did not come in with the lowest amount of track repair in 2005 and 2006. The railroad with the most amount of track repair happened to be Kansas City Southern, who invested $103 million in 2005 on track repair. CSX, as stated, spent $203 million on track repair this same year. People say CSX makes bad moves on motive power. Everyone stands behind the "EMD SD40-2 life span" when told that the new GE units are what the high demand is.

It is the 21st century, and technology has advanced. Many act as though the 1960-built EMD SD40 unit is still high-tech, brand new machinery. Many SD40-2 units have over a million miles under their belts, and are starting to wear out or become less operator-friendly. The GE Evolution Series, though high on the list of annoying, repetitive locomotives, is what is new and is what has been hauling good with minor repairs for the past 2-3 years. An EMD SD40-2 has 3,000 horsepower and can only hold between 4,000 and 4,500 gallons of US diesel fuel. The new GE units can hold 5,000 gallons of US diesel fuel. They are more environmentally friendly, are more fuel efficient and perform just as well.

If I had to voice my opinion, I say CSX is doing well in today's demanding consumer economy. Alot of people talk down on CSX behind their computers, but if put in position to operate a railroad with 20-30,000 miles of trackage that has near 3-4,000 locomotives and several thousand major customers, they too, would have a hard time with the same exact problems!

Here is the link to CSX-sucks.com:
http://www.csx-sucks.com/

This website also takes negative experiences that have happened over the course of years, and compresses them to make them seem like a daily occurrence on CSX. Don't let this illusion fool you either!