Class I Briefs: BNSF, CSX
Written by Carolina Worrell, Senior Editor
Feature film "Train Time" highlights BNSF trains and team members. Also, CSX joins Operation Gratitude to assemble and provide care packages for deployed troops.
BNSF announced on Oct. 17 via a Twitter post that Train Time, a feature film highlighting the Class I’s trains and team members, has been released and is now playing in IMAX® and other theaters across North America and internationally.
Viewers of the film join BNSF crews on a journey across the railroad’s network, including visits to Cajon Pass in California, the gorges of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, the Rocky Mountains and more. According to BNSF, the film pays tribute to the industry served by the railroad and illustrates the passion so many have for railroading.
Beginning in 2015, BNSF teams hosted film crews over several years at various locations around the railroad’s network.
Details on the film, including screening locations, can be found on the Train Time website.
Separately, Operation Gratitude will join CSX and volunteers from the greater Jacksonville area on Oct. 22—just a few days before the National Day of the Deployed—to assemble and provide 10,000 care packages for deployed service members of the Carrier Striker 10 fleet USS George H.W. Bush stationed near Ukraine in support of operations in Eastern Europe, the Class I announced.
According to the Class I, each Operation Gratitude care package contains snacks, personal care and hygiene products, handmade items and handwritten letters from grateful Americans.
“Thousands of service members are deployed worldwide, separated from their loved ones and the comforts of home,” CSX said. “Sadly, many troops rarely get mail and some never do. Receiving mail during Mail Call is important to service member’s morale and well-being, especially during a difficult deployment and while being away from family. Care Packages like these are a little piece of home and a reminder that a grateful nation stands with them.”
This event is part of CSX’s Pride in Service community investment initiative, which focuses on delivering resources and support to military members and their families, when and where they need it.
In July, more than 150 employees of CSX and its subsidiary Quality Carriers assembled 5,000 care packages for U.S. military service members, who have been mobilized to Eastern Europe in response to the Ukraine conflict.
Watch the below video to see a CSX/Operation Gratitude care package assembly in action.
