A little about CSX

[Trainman1965]

CSX Transportation (AAR reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United
States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the two Class Is’ serving most of the
east coast, the other being the Norfolk Southern Railway. It is the oldest railroad in North
America – its history stretching back to 1827 with its predecessor the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
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. The merger had
been started in 1980 with the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line
Industries to form the CSX Corporation.
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, and T for Transportation." The T had to be added to use CSXT as a reporting mark,
since company initials that end in X could only be used by non-railroad railcar owners.

[CPRailer]

Thanks a bunch for the info! So it might be prototypical to find NYC and Pennsy style signals on a CSX line these days? Been trying to figure out what signals to put on my layout. CSX/CP Rail.

[BostonMBTA2008]

thanks for the info!!!!!