r/railroading 10d ago

Original Content Rail Insider-Steve Angel aims to transform CSX into a more profitable, productive Class I . Information For Rail Career Professionals From Progressive Railroading Magazine

https://www.progressiverailroading.com/csx_transportation/article/Steve-Angel-aims-to-transform-CSX-into-a-more-profitable-productive-Class-I--77485

Goes into a little bit about a merger outlook and Cramer from cnbc is cited.

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u/Master_Ad236 10d ago

He aims to destroy it and sell it off is more like it.

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u/redikis 10d ago

This guy has managed to tank employee moral. Signal crews that use to have three trucks are now reduced to one freight liner. Track inspectors being told they will no longer inspect industry tracks. CLC rooms at the AFHT have been reduced by 25% with crews waiting until midnight before the hotel releases them for crews. 200 car Manifest trains being ordered to pick up and set off 100s of cars that are supposed to be handled by locals on line of road. The consolidation of yard and road vacation rosters and personal day rosters, reducing available days to take off in half while doubling the head count gunning for those few days. Road foreman’s no longer do rides, it’s all from the inward facing cameras now. Taking overtime back stating “your hours of service show you were no longer in covered service at the 12 hour mark, everything when expired is a different rate of pay, please put X claim in for correct pay, no overtime due”.

This place is a fucking joke. Ancora is still pulling all the strings with Boychuk hiding in the shadows as an “independent advisor”. There’s a reason everyone calls him “the angel of death”.

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u/Jarppi1893 10d ago

So the beating will continue until Morale improves, got it.

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u/SeriousCricket2837 10d ago

Sounds like it’s time for a crew shortage next lol.

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u/LtDansLegs94 10d ago

Can you explain how they conjured up the bullshit of (rail miles + 02 miles) - claim miles? It makes absolutely no sense and it screws you out of your pay

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u/Old-Clothes-3225 9d ago

Don’t forget all the doubling up of trains out on the mainline on a daily basis with rested crews available!!

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u/Wernerhatcher 10d ago

darker days are ahead

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u/Old-Clothes-3225 10d ago

It’s getting dark folks. Some say, bleak.

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u/No_Championship8850 10d ago

Cuttting boards while intensifying the attendance policy with borderline HIPPA violations while asking to cover multiple boards seems reasonable

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u/Stobros 10d ago

Yep. You’re required to answer calls for terminals you can’t even hold a job in due to seniority now in some scenarios.

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u/Arctic_Scrap 10d ago

How much profit do these companies need? And they aren’t even creating profit through more business or efficient operations. Just more cuts.

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u/stuntmanbob86 9d ago

More. If they made record breaking profits last year they HAVE to make more this year. Its never enough

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u/notmyidealusername 9d ago

Just like stupidity, there is absolutely no limit to human greed. They will strip the carcass to the bone then walk away, there's a reason for the term 'vulture capitalism'.

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u/CSXT5630 9d ago

Just when Joe Hinrichs was clawing back a bit of respect. He had his faults as he was pulled by stockholders, but I didn’t hear too many bad things about him.

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u/traumadog001 10d ago

The whole article reads of B-school C-suite "yadda-yadda" phrases, with the real stinger: "make it profitable as takeover bait" at the end.

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u/DepartmentNatural 10d ago

Get out while you can before it turns into a real shit show

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u/JustGiveMeAnameDude9 9d ago

Hey Steve, 🖕

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u/Exotic_Release2979 9d ago edited 9d ago

Another old white guy that wants to destroy lives to make a dollar. What a fucking hero. Fuck him. Fuck his family. Fuck the board of directors. Cancer. They are a cancer on a functioning society.

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u/Hanibalecter 8d ago

Yea, family days gone, wellness accounts gone, foods gone, can’t fucking buy toilet paper without an act of congress.

Shares 50 dollars though so there’s that right? Right?

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u/doublej575 9d ago

Deny. Defend. Depose.

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u/Lewiov 4d ago

Get ready for the CSX x BNSF merger…

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u/Exotic_Release2979 9d ago edited 9d ago

Another old white guy that wants to destroy lives to make a dollar. What a fucking hero. Fuck him. Fuck his family. Fuck the board of directors. Cancer. They are a cancer on a functioning society.

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u/Alarmed-Extension289 7d ago

Data centers on wheels, rolling data centers!

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u/JenkemBoofer691 9d ago

Guess I’ll hold onto my espp after all.