Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

CSX has various lease agreements with terms up to 50 years, including leases of land, land with integral equipment (e.g. track), buildings and various equipment. Some leases include options to purchase, terminate or extend for one or more years. These options are included in the lease term when it is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised.

At inception, the Company determines if an arrangement contains a lease and whether that lease meets the classification criteria of a finance or operating lease. Some of the Company’s lease arrangements contain lease components (e.g. minimum rent payments) and non-lease components (e.g. maintenance, labor charges, etc.). The Company generally accounts for each component separately based on the estimated standalone price of each component. For certain equipment leases, such as freight car, vehicles and work equipment, the Company accounts for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component.

Certain of the Company’s lease agreements include rental payments that are adjusted periodically for an index or rate. The leases are initially measured using the projected payments adjusted for the index or rate in effect at the commencement date. The Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

Operating Leases

Operating leases are included in right-of-use lease assets, other current liabilities and long-term lease liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets. These assets and liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of remaining lease payments over the lease term using the Company’s secured incremental borrowing rates or implicit rates, when readily determinable. Short-term operating leases, which have an initial term of 12 months or less, are not recorded on the balance sheet.

Lease expense for operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Variable lease expense is recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments is incurred. Lease expense is included in equipment and other rents on the consolidated income statements and is reported net of lease income. Lease income is not material to the results of operations for the quarter or nine months ended September 2019.

NOTE 5. Leases, continued

The following table presents information about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from the Company’s operating leases as of September 30, 2019.



(Dollars in Millions)	September 30, 2019
Maturity of Lease Liabilities	Lease Payments
2019 (remaining)	$	14
2020	61
2021	53
2022	46
2023	38
Thereafter	1,242
Total undiscounted operating lease payments	$	1,454
Less: Imputed interest	(901		)
Present value of operating lease liabilities	$	553

Balance Sheet Classification
Current lease liabilities (recorded in other current liabilities)	$	59
Long-term lease liabilities	494
Total operating lease liabilities	$	553

Other Information
Weighted-average remaining lease term for operating leases	32 years
Weighted-average discount rate for operating leases	5.0		%

Cash Flows

An initial right-of-use asset of $534 million was recognized as a non-cash asset addition with the adoption of the new lease accounting standard. Additional right-of-use assets of $41 million were recognized as non-cash asset additions that resulted from new operating lease liabilities during the nine months ended September 30, 2019. Cash paid for amounts included in the present value of operating lease liabilities was $44 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and is included in operating cash flows.

Operating Lease Costs

Operating lease costs were $21 million during third quarter 2019 and $60 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019. These costs are primarily related to long-term operating leases, but also include immaterial amounts for variable leases and short-term leases with terms greater than 30 days.

Finance Leases

Finance leases are included in properties-net and long-term debt on the consolidated balance sheets. The associated amortization expense and interest expense are included in depreciation and interest expense, respectively, on the consolidated income statements. These leases are not material to the consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2019.