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 ...

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 ...

For decades, Baltimore’s Howard Street Tunnel has been both an asset and a chokehold. Built in 1895 by the B&O Railroad, it was once an engineering triumph; by the late 20th century, its low ...

CSX has operated its first revenue double-stack freight train through Baltimore’s upgraded Howard Street Tunnel, marking a major milestone in East Coast–Midwest freight service. The clearance project, ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overhead and some labor charges were flagged as lacking documentation, but no flagrant misspending was uncovered by auditors.