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Computer Problems Derail Train Service; Virus Infected System, CSX Says.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Stephen Kiehl, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 21--The morning commute turned miserable yesterday for thousands of people who take trains to Washington after CSX Transportation's computer system went down, halting train traffic from Canada to Florida for up to six hours.
Most of the morning trains on the Maryland Rail Commuter service's Camden and Brunswick lines were canceled, and those few that ran were up to 90 minutes late. Both lines run on tracks owned and operated by CSX, a freight railroad.
CSX said a computer virus infected its network and shut down the signaling and dispatching systems at 1:15 a.m. yesterday. The signals are the lights along a track that tell train conductors if it is safe to...
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