MAINE PUBLIC • January 26, 2026
Union leadership says rail company CSX Transportation is laying off 21 workers across several crafts at its mechanical repair facility in Waterville. CSX is one of the largest rail-transport companies in the country and brought in $14.09 billion in revenue during FY2025. It operates approximately 20,000 miles of track in states east of the Mississippi River. The move comes three years after CSX purchased Pan Am Railways, extending its reach into Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. “This is about pure greed,” said Josh Hartford, of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers President, Rail Division. "Workers will have to either uproot their families to New York or Maryland to finish out their last few months of employment or take the severance package and take a 30% pension penalty,"