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CSX Transportation
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Overview
HeadquartersBaltimore, MD, and Jacksonville, FL
Reporting markCSXT, NYC
LocaleAlabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
Dates of operation1980–present

CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the two Class I's serving most of the east coast, the other being the Norfolk Southern Railway.

History

Main article: List of CSX Transportation predecessor railroads

CSX Transportation was formed on July 1, 1986 as a renaming of the Seaboard System Railroad, which had absorbed the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad, as well as several smaller subsidiaries. On August 31, 1987 the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which had absorbed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad April 30 of that year, merged into CSX.

On June 23, 1997, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide and operate the assets of the 11,000-mile Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned corporation. On June 6, 1998, the STB approved the CSX-Norfolk Southern application and set August 22, 1998, as the effective date of its decision. CSX acquired 42% of Conrail's assets (Norfolk Southern got the remaining 58%). As a result of the transaction, CSX's rail operations, through its new subsidiary New York Central Lines, grew to include some 3,800 miles of the Conrail system (predominantly the former New York Central Railroad). CSX began operating its trains on its portion of the Conrail network on June 1, 1999.

CSX's headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, with the Acosta Bridge and adjacent Florida East Coast Railway bridge in the foreground.

CSX now serves many of the eastern U.S. states (with a few routes into nearby Canadian cities).

The name came about during merger talks between Chessie System, Inc. and Seaboard System Railroad, Inc., commonly called Chessie and Seaboard. The company chairmen said it was important for the new name to include neither of those names due to it being a partnership. Employees were asked for suggestions, most of which consisted of combinations of the initials. At the same time a temporary shorthand name was needed for discussions with the Interstate Commerce Commission. CSC was chosen but belonged to a trucking company in Virginia. CSM (for Chessie-Seaboard Merger) was also taken. The lawyers decided to use CSX, and the name stuck. In the public announcement, it was said that "CSX is singularly appropriate. C can stand for Chessie, S for Seaboard, and X, the multiplication symbol, means that together we are so much more."

CSX executive officers

See CSX Corporation.

Juice Train: a model for unit train competition

CSX operates the Juice Train, a famous unit train of Tropicana fresh orange juice between Bradenton, Florida, and distribution centers in Jersey City, New Jersey and Cincinnati, Ohio. in the United States.

In the 21st century, CSX Juice Trains have been the focus of efficiency studies and have received awards. They are considered good examples of how modern rail transportation can compete successfully with trucking and other modes to carry perishable products.

Lines

The following major lines are operated by CSX:

Those lines, along with other minor lines, are categorized into Divisions, and split into Subdivisions:

Central Region

  • Allegheny Division
  • Appalachian Division
  • C&O Division

Midwest Region

  • Louisville Division
  • Nashville Division

(Includes Nashville to Chattanooga, Nashville to Bruceton, Nashville to Birmingham, and Nashville Radnor Yard)

Northeast Region

Southern Region

Western Region

Locomotives

CSX has a few famous locomotives around the system, the locomotive number will be in Bold text (the current paint scheme is blue and gold):

  • 699 is a GE AC4400CW decorated with a "Diversity in Motion" logo on the side
  • 6063 is a EMD GP40-2, she is the former Chessie System GM50
  • 8888 is a EMD SD40-2, she is famous for being a Runaway Train in Ohio
  • 6000 is a GP40-2 that was the last locomotive in Chessie paint
  • 6001 is a GP40-2 that had the first roadnumber B&O 1977
  • 6062 is another GP40-2 that was the second locomotive that had B&O 1977
  • 9699 is a EMD GP38-2, she was Trains Magazine's "All American Diesel" for 1982 (former B&O 3802, now at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland)

See also

References

  • Milt Dolinger, How CSX got its name, Trains
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