BUILT IN THE 1890S, THE HOWARD STREET TUNNEL UNTIL NOW HAD BEEN A CHOKE POINT FOR FREIGHT TRAIN, RAIL TRAFFIC AND AN ACHILLES HEEL FOR THE PORT OF BALTIMORE. THE EXPANSION CHANGES EVERYTHING. THIS IS ...

Minutes before Joe Hinrichs reopened the Howard Street Tunnel to rail traffic Friday, he smiled. “We’re done early and below budget,” said the CSX Corp. president as he signaled the completion of a ...

CSX (CSX) reported Q4 2025 intermodal revenue growth of 7% on 5% volume growth, with the completed Howard Street Tunnel upgrade enabling double-stack container capability from the West Coast through ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) today announced the re-opening of the expanded Howard Street Tunnel, a historic and transformative $450+ million infrastructure ...

The Howard Street Tunnel, originally built in the 1890s, reopened Friday in Baltimore. The tunnel has been a vital shipping line artery, but it became a corridor bottleneck because double-stacked ...

A squad of construction workers descend daily under the streets of Baltimore. They labor deep down, in the semi-secret and highly restricted chamber known as the Howard Street Tunnel. The massive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crews remove track at the south portal of the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore. (Photo: CSX) BALTIMORE — Just hours after empty ...

The Howard Street Tunnel may be the most important local infrastructure project that relatively few people actually living in the Baltimore area know much about. Oh, quite a few have probably heard ...

CSX’s Howard Street Tunnel Project “is a pivotal step in enhancing freight transportation along the I-95 corridor,” the Class I reported Aug. 7. The comprehensive initiative includes upgrades to the ...

The freight trains that labored to climb through Baltimore’s historic Howard Street Tunnel disappeared a few weeks ago. For the first time in 130-odd years, the slow, dull roar of engines climbing a ...

Gov. Larry Hogan and transportation officials broke ground Monday on the Howard Street Tunnel expansion project. The groundbreaking resulted from seven years of negotiations between the state, CSX and ...

A few blocks west of the chemical explosion that sent manhole covers flying Saturday, Baltimore’s sewer system connects to the Howard Street Tunnel where a CSX train carrying the same chemical caught ...