The Surface Transportation Board will hold a special session to listen to CSX Corp. and railroad shippers discuss service disruptions since May that have ratcheted up the animosity between the sides in a public war of words.
Hunter Harrison, CEO of CSX, has blamed the delays on the implementation of his precision scheduled railroading concept, which he successfully integrated into the operations at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway.
The railroad already has laid off nearly 2,300 employees in 2017 and hinted at 700 more eliminations before year-end.
