Seaboard System Railroad

Seaboard System Railroad

Infobox SG rail
railroad_name=Seaboard System Railroad
logo_filename=Seaboard System logo.jpg
logo_size=150
marks=SBD
locale=Southeastern United States
start_year=1983
end_year=1986
successor_line=CSXT
hq_city=Jacksonville, FL
The Seaboard System Railroad was a railroad subsidiary of the CSX Corporation, created as an intermediate step in the mergers that would form CSX Transportation. Its roots were in the Family Lines System, a marketing name adopted by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL, a 1967 consolidation of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroads) and its subsidiaries in 1972. Under this relationship, equipment of the SCL, Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N), Georgia Railroad, Clinchfield Railroad, and West Point Route (Atlanta and West Point Railroad and Western Railway of Alabama) was repainted gray with yellow and red stripes, but the six companies continued to operate separately.Brian Solomon, CSX: Railroad Heritage, 1827-2004, 2005, pp. 41, 62, 93] Bill Yenne, Atlas of North American Railroads, 2005, p. 107]

The CSX Corporation was formed on November 1, 1980, from a merger of two holding companies: Seaboard Coast Line Industries and Chessie System. The first steps in consolidating railroad subsidiaries took place in 1982: the SCL absorbed the Georgia Railroad on November 4, and on December 29, 1982, effective January 1, 1983, the SCL absorbed the L&N and Clinchfield , and was renamed Seaboard System Railroad. The Family Lines colors were kept, but in a slightly different design, in which the stripes were curved in a stylized "SS".Moody's Transportation Manual, 1992, pp. xxii-xxiv, 421-428, 451]

Subsequent absorptions by the Seaboard System included the South Carolina Pacific Railway (April 30, 1984), Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railway (July 1984), Atlanta and West Point Railroad (June 1986), and Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad (June 1986). Finally, on July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System Railroad was renamed CSX Transportation. On August 31, 1987, CSX absorbed the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which had merged the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad only four months earlier, and all the major parts of CSX were now one company. (The Western Railway of Alabama would remain an operating subsidiary until December 2002, when it was finally merged into CSX. [Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/9b71930019a820c7852574dc007766d1/b82fb02e339851e185256c95004ea8f9?OpenDocument CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC.--CORPORATE FAMILY MERGER EXEMPTION--THE WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA] , December 26, 2002] )

Operating divisions

*Atlanta
*Birmingham
*Clinchfield
*Corbin
*Evansville
*Florence
*Jacksonville
*Louisville
*Mobile
*Nashville
*Raleigh
*Savannah
*Tampa

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