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SMYRNA, Ga. — On Sunday, crews with Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries were seen near the derailment site along Wicker Wood Place. While several rail cars remained on the side of ...
On July 1, 1967, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad completed a merger with rival Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, becoming the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. A simple substitution of one word fixed the ...
LAKELAND -- Mr. Robert Bruce Rhodes, a retired railroad car inspector for the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, died of heart failure Monday (Dec. 6, 2004) at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. He was ...
In May 1948, a Seaboard Air Line Railroad diesel-powered passenger train left Main Street Station to head south. The Seaboard’s main line at that time ran from Richmond all the way to Miami. A ...
Running from 1900 to 1967, when it merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to form Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, this railroad “played a significant role in what is now CSX (Chessie Seaboard ...
The usual story is that the Maco Light vanished around 1977, with the Seaboard Coast Line pulled up the old Wilmington & Manchester railroad tracks in the vicinity of the intersection of U.S. 76/ ...
In No. 1982’s case, the Seaboard System logo’s red, yellow and white stand out on the carbody’s gray. Created in 1982 with the merger of the Seaboard Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville ...
On March 2, 1968, passenger rail service in Wilmington reached the end of the line. That's when the old Seaboard Coast Line, the successor to the massive Atlantic Coast Line railroad, which had ...
Mr. Canty, a retired trackman for Seaboard Coast LineRailroad, died of a heart attack Wednesday (Sept. 8, 2004) at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. He was 85. Born in Lanes, S.C., he came to ...
Q. I see a lot of train cars stamped with the acronym CSX. What does CSX stand for? — A.R., Hampton. A. In 1980, CSX Corp. was created as the result of a merger of Seaboard Coast Line and Che… ...