Precision railroading

In March 2017, he was appointed CEO of CSX Transportation and began implementing PSR on its large network, but he died eight months later.

[3] Under PSR, service is typically eliminated on shipping lanes and origin-destination pairs that have low traffic levels.

[7] PSR advocates claim that shippers benefit in the long run from reduced costs and more reliable schedules.

[8][9][10] In particular, precision scheduled railroading is impacting safety due to increased train length, up to three miles (5,000 meters) in many cases.

This leads to a higher risk of derailments as well as crew stress and fatigue due to the difficulty of operating trains of this length, for which the North American railroad network was not necessarily designed.

Precision railroading attempts to minimize the number of times on each journey a freight car must be sorted in classification yards such as this one in Fort Worth, Texas.