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Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine.It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it.
CSX Corporation is an American holding company focused on rail transportation and real estate in North America, among other industries. The company was established in 1980 as part of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries merger.
CSX began operating its trains on its portion of the Conrail network on June 1, 1999. CSX now serves much of the Eastern United States, with a few routes into nearby Canadian cities. The two competitors were unwilling to give one company full control of busy industrial areas in Detroit, Philadelphia, and northern New Jersey (the Chemical Coast).
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The 2008 financial crisis didn’t happen overnight. Rather, it was the culmination of a series of factors. The details of what led to the financial crisis are detailed in the 2010 book “The Big ...
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001.
CSX Transportation freight trains from the west cross the Hudson on the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge, 140 miles (230 km) to the north at Selkirk. From there to Poughkeepsie the two-track line, known as the Hudson Subdivision, is owned by CSX but is leased to Amtrak. [17] Amtrak runs 28 trains a day on this segment.
In 2021, CSX repainted three EMD F40PHs into an honorary B&O scheme: CSX 1, CSX 2 and CSX 3. In May 2023, GE ES44AH unit #1827 entered service, being repaired and painted at CSX shops in Waycross, GA under the honorary B&O scheme similar to that of the three F40PH locomotives. It is CSX's first heritage unit.