What is CSX?
Class I railroad company with $14.09B 2025 revenue, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Category
- Class I railroad
- Headquarters
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Founded
- 1980
- Employees
- Approximately 23,000
- Total funding
- Public company; no venture funding profile
- Status
- NASDAQ: CSX
What is CSX?
CSX is a public class i railroad company with $14.09B 2025 revenue. It operates at enterprise scale from Jacksonville, Florida, serving customers through a large physical network, digital channels, and specialized operating teams.
CSX is a public class i railroad company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. It operates an eastern U.S. rail network connecting ports, intermodal terminals, industrial customers, automotive plants, coal basins, and population centers, and its latest public reporting shows $14.09B 2025 revenue with Approximately 23,000 employees or team members.
The company sells and operates across Merchandise rail, Intermodal, Coal, Automotive, Chemicals, Agriculture and food, with buyers, customers, or partners distributed across a large physical and digital operating footprint. Its market position is shaped by network density, brand trust, operational reliability, pricing discipline, loyalty or contract economics, and the ability to coordinate frontline operations with enterprise technology.
For B2B sellers, CSX is a sophisticated enterprise account rather than a single-department buyer. The strongest motions usually attach to financeable outcomes: better uptime, lower claims or disruption, higher conversion, stronger yield management, faster support, safer operations, more resilient infrastructure, or cleaner data for planning and compliance.
What does CSX offer?
CSX offers Merchandise rail, Intermodal, Coal, Automotive, Chemicals and related services for consumers, businesses, partners, or asset owners.
- Merchandise rail· Offering
- Intermodal· Offering
- Coal· Offering
- Automotive· Offering
- Chemicals· Offering
- Agriculture and food· Offering
- Transloading· Offering
- Port connectivity· Offering
How does CSX make money?
CSX makes money through rail freight, intermodal, merchandise, coal, automotive, chemicals, agriculture and food products, minerals, accessorial tariffs, and contract rail services.
CSX makes money through rail freight, intermodal, merchandise, coal, automotive, chemicals, agriculture and food products, minerals, accessorial tariffs, and contract rail services. The company does not have SaaS-style seat tiers; customer prices are transaction, contract, location, or itinerary dependent and are governed by confidential transportation contracts, public tariffs, demurrage and accessorial charges, fuel recovery, intermodal lane rates, and customer-specific service agreements.
Growth is driven by volume, mix, pricing power, capacity utilization, network efficiency, loyalty or contract retention, digital conversion, partner economics, and disciplined capital spending. Because CSX has public-company scale, small improvements in conversion, asset turns, labor productivity, maintenance, claims, fraud, energy, procurement, or customer retention can be financially meaningful.
Budget owners tend to fund technology when it improves measurable operating KPIs or protects the customer experience. Vendor positioning should map to the buyer's P&L: revenue management, throughput, automation, risk reduction, uptime, compliance, cybersecurity, customer data, workforce productivity, and integration with existing operational systems.
Who leads CSX?
CSX is led by Steve Angel, President and Chief Executive Officer, with finance, operating, commercial, and technology leaders managing the core enterprise buying centers.
- Steve AngelPresident and Chief Executive OfficerCEO since 2025Industrial operator brought in to improve execution and growth.
- Sean PelkeyExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerCFO since 2021Leads finance, treasury, and investor relations.
- Mike CoryExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating OfficerCOO since 2023Owns railroad operations and service delivery.
- Kevin BooneExecutive Vice President and Chief Commercial OfficerSenior commercial leaderLeads sales, marketing, and customer strategy.
How do you contact CSX's leadership?
CSX publishes investor, media, customer, or partner contact routes, but a verified personal executive email pattern is not public. Use the official contact route shown here and avoid treating any inferred personal address as verified.
No verified public personal-executive email format; use investor_relations@csx.comHow much funding has CSX raised?
CSX is a public company (NASDAQ: CSX) and is not best described by venture funding raised.
CSX is a mature public company, not a venture-backed startup with priced seed, Series A, or late-stage private rounds. Its relevant capital history is public equity, debt markets, operating cash flow, lease or equipment finance, and acquisition financing rather than disclosed VC funding.
The major capital milestones are: 1980 CSX formed (Public railroad holding company created); 1999 Conrail transaction (Network scale expanded in eastern U.S.); 2017 Operating model reset (Capital discipline and PSR model accelerated); 2025 $14.09B revenue (Public-market funded eastern rail network); 2026 Operational improvement (Continued capex and service rebuilding). As of June 2026, the most useful buyer signal is not a private valuation but $14.09B 2025 revenue, NASDAQ: CSX, and the scale of its ongoing capital program.
For sellers, this means budget exists but is governed by mature procurement, security, compliance, integration, finance, and operating-leader review. Winning opportunities need to connect to measurable revenue lift, yield, service reliability, productivity, customer experience, regulatory compliance, asset utilization, or cost reduction.
How did CSX get here?
CSX reached its current scale through founding, network expansion, public-market access, acquisitions or strategic shifts, and recent public-company execution.
- 1980CSX Corporation formedCSX Corporation formed helped shape CSX's current market position.
- 1987Chessie System and Seaboard System integratedChessie System and Seaboard System integrated helped shape CSX's current market position.
- 1999Conrail assets split with Norfolk SouthernConrail assets split with Norfolk Southern helped shape CSX's current market position.
- 2017Precision scheduled railroading transformation beginsPrecision scheduled railroading transformation begins helped shape CSX's current market position.
- 2025Major infrastructure rebuilding and safety gains highlightedMajor infrastructure rebuilding and safety gains highlighted helped shape CSX's current market position.
- 2026First-quarter revenue and profit improve under Steve AngelFirst-quarter revenue and profit improve under Steve Angel helped shape CSX's current market position.
Who are CSX's competitors?
CSX competes with large public and private operators that overlap in customers, routes, assets, channels, brands, or consumer travel demand.
- Norfolk SouthernNorfolk Southern competes with CSX for overlapping customers, lanes, travelers, owners, or discretionary spend, but differs by network footprint, brand mix, pricing model, or channel strategy.
- Union PacificUnion Pacific competes with CSX for overlapping customers, lanes, travelers, owners, or discretionary spend, but differs by network footprint, brand mix, pricing model, or channel strategy.
- BNSF RailwayBNSF Railway competes with CSX for overlapping customers, lanes, travelers, owners, or discretionary spend, but differs by network footprint, brand mix, pricing model, or channel strategy.
- Canadian Pacific Kansas CityCanadian Pacific Kansas City competes with CSX for overlapping customers, lanes, travelers, owners, or discretionary spend, but differs by network footprint, brand mix, pricing model, or channel strategy.
- CNCN competes with CSX for overlapping customers, lanes, travelers, owners, or discretionary spend, but differs by network footprint, brand mix, pricing model, or channel strategy.
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