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The CSX Collection


For the masochists among you, here it is, PCNB’s collected reporting to date on the massive rail hub and distribution center proposed for southeast Winter Haven.

I count 37 posts in just less than three months. Here also are links to the first development of regional impact clearance letter sought and received from the state by CSX last year, the second clearance letter received in Apriland the new letter received Tuesday revoking that clearance and making a full regional review of the project likely.


Haven Blogging-3/20

Polk Is Already A CSX Crossroads-3/28

More Freight Shipping Trivia 3/29

CSX Crossroads Redux 3/29

Examining Job And Traffic Numbers For Winter Haven CSX Hub 3/30

CSX: Haven ILC Will Nearly Double Train Traffic Through Downtown Lakeland 4/2

Lakeland Turned Down Its Own Smaller CSX Hub In 2003 4/3

“The Mother Of All Rail Yards” 4/4

Reviewing The CSX Train Traffic Question 4/6

In Depth Look At CSX’s “Mother Of All Rail Yards” And How It’s Being Approved 4/9

Ocala Is Also Dealing With CSX Fallout 4/10

Tale Of Two Cities: How Lakeland And Ocala Have Dealt Differently With CSX Project 4/12

Tampa Business Groups Hold A Meeting Dominated By Polk County 4/12

CSX Moves To Polk’s Government/Media Frontburner 4/18

Talking CSX, J.D. Alexander, the Heartland Parkway and Turnpike Expansion 4/19

CSX And Lakeland Officials Meet, Tour Downtown, Get Stuck Waiting On A Train 4/19

County Commissioner To Publicly Discuss Delaying The CSX Hub 4/25

What Polk County Government Wants Its CSX Consultant To Do 4/25

CSX Job Numbers 4/27

A Single CSX Crossing Study Could Cost More Than Polk’s Hub Consultant 4/30

Who Attended The CSX/Lakeland Private Meeting? 5/3

Randy Wilkinson Writes A Letter 5/3

Learning About Trains In Atlanta And Lakeland 5/7

Rail’s Tangled Web In Polk County 5/9

Commission Calls For CSX Regional Review 5/9

Paula Dockery, Officials With Three Polk cities, Call For CSX Review 5/11

CSX Hub: New Industrial City Or Humble Rail Yard? 5/13

More On CSX’s DRI “Clearance” 5/14

Local Blogger’s Amazing CSX Resource 5/15

Some Questions For David Greene 5/15

Lake Wales Commission Unanimously Backs County In CSX Debate 5/16

Some CSX Questions Are More Equal Than Others 5/19

CSX: Project Will Help Everyone’s Traffic But Polk’s 5/21

Dantzler Applauds County Commission On CSX Regional Review 5/21

Report: State Says CSX Hub Must Go Through Regional Review 5/30

CSX Hub: What Was The New Information? 5/30



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Jennifer Leigh:

Jennifer Leigh, a reporter in Polk County, joined News Channel 8 in March 1993. She is a fifth-generation Floridian, who was born in Miami and grew up in Polk County. Email


Joe Martin:

Joe Martin is a photojournalist for NewsChannel 8. He recently moved here from Harrisburg, Penn. Martin, 26, has also worked in television in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. and Las Vegas. "I got into this business because I love meeting new people, and telling their stories," Martin says. Email


Ted Hoffman:

Ted Hoffman, an award-winning newspaper writer, editor, critic and columnist for 30 years on both coasts, but not at the same time, lives in Lakeland with his wife and son. An anthologized fiction writer and former stand-up comedian, he spends his free time knitting toupees for bald eagles. Email


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