Today, CSX operate trains in much of the eastern half of the nation and parts of eastern Canada on the oldest rail lines in North America. So, the next time you are watching trains at your favorite train watching spot and see a CSX train arriving, remember that CSX stands for many great historic railroads under three letters. The second photo is a locomotive at the old train station in Brunswick, Maryland. Reblogged this on John Cowgill's Literature Site.
Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. It was never intended that CSX would be the permanent name of the new corporation. C can stand for Chessie, S for Seaboard and X, the multiplication symbol, means that together we are so much more. We also feel the logotype developed by our own internal communications people is a distinctive one and there will be no problem with our recognition.
That comment about the logotype needs some explanation. The public relations department for Chessie, of which I was in charge, had brainstormed a number of ideas for a proper logo. We went through all the varieties of using CSX in different letter styles, and nothing really stood out. Finally, almost as a passing thought, I asked our staff designer, Franklyn Carr, if there was any way he could combine a slanted C and S to form the shape of an X.
After an afternoon of doodling, Franklyn came up with a truly distinctive logo. Anybody monitoring comments on these older or even newer articles? Check out the comment from approximately two months ago. Milwaukee Road passenger trains. Milwaukee Road history. Union Pacific on Cajon Pass in the s. EMD at The latter two roads merged a few years later in to form Norfolk Southern although the NS of that time remained much smaller than its rival.
However, unlike the Chessie System, which was an efficiently operated and well-managed railroad these practices never truly carried on into the new company. Despite the fact that CSX Transportation was much larger than NS, the latter consistently earned higher profits with an overall lower operating ratio. In addition, after Hays T. Watkins the railroad's first chairman left CSXT in the railroad seemingly lacked an effective management system until the mids.
Today, it is coming on strong as one of the most efficiently operated railroads in the country as of mid it posted its lowest operating ratio ever. While CSXT never suffered from the corporate culture issues Penn Central experienced with its employees, it still struggled to find an identity.
It has long been stated that former Seaboard and Chessie people did not see eye-to-eye on many things and this carried over into the corporate logo. There was no general agreement about what this should be or how it would appear. Tom Dixon states in his book, " The Chessie Era ," that at first the new company had absolutely no plans to use the initials "CSX" on its locomotives or equipment.
However, sure enough, by it began appearing and the initial design featured a simple grey-dip scheme with blue trim and lettering. It was dubbed the "Stealth" livery by railfans; according to the "Bull Sheet" the first locomotives to wear it were B's and , which rolled out of the shops in Waycross, Georgia on May 6, It was the vision of Baltimore businessmen and city leaders who felt they needed a better means of transportation to effectively compete against the Erie Canal which connected New York City with the Port of Albany at Buffalo.
During that time the eastern port cities fiercely competed with one another. Louis, Indianapolis, and briefly Kansas City. It struggled to keep up with the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads but held title as the third major trunk line in the East. Its earliest roots trace back to Virginia's Louisa Railroad of while its most prominent predecessor was the Virginia Central.
It thrived on the rich coal fields of southern West Virginia while its link to the Windy City offered substantial through freight. On June 6, it formally acquired the Pere Marquette Railway, offering access throughout Michigan and a link to Buffalo. In the railroad was acquired by the Fuller Syndicate, led by George Gould. He had hopes of using the WM as a link in his ultimate plan to form a true, transcontinental railroad under common ownership. Due to Gould's overreach, the company fell into bankruptcy in and emerged in as the Western Maryland Railway.
Today, most of its network has been abandoned. Enthusiasts who closely follow the company have attached names to its various paint schemes over the years which, interestingly, have changed little during that time. Through the many various subtle alternations the three significant changes include the following; during the early s, for better visibility yellow was introduced to the skirting, nose, and aft end of locomotives.
A decade after this updated book place the design was altered to include the so-called "Boxcar Logo" featuring a basic boxcar shape around the CSX stencil. Most observers agree that, despite some stylistic changes from time to time, the font used for "CSX" has always remained Lubalin Graph Bold.
However, his departure was not the beginning of the railroad's problems. In the mids then-Chessie System took steps to pare down what it deemed superfluous or redundant segments. Louis Gateway main line Baltimore - St.
Ironically, after pulling the plug the railroad was left without a competitive container route until its acquisition of Conrail in There were also key segments of the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line abandoned while talks continue today about potentially rebuilding some of these routes for passenger service. These moves, and others, have drawn CSXT a great deal of criticism both in and outside of the industry.
The Parkersburg Branch was indeed operationally expensive while its numerous tunnels restricted the amount of through traffic it could handle double-stacks could not fit through the bores. Had the railroad then known that double-stack containers would comprise such a large percentage of rail traffic only a few decades later it certainly would have spent the extra time and slightly additional expense to upgrade the line for this freight.
Today, its only vital route seeing considerable use is the former Chicago main line. This road's busy main line ran between Washington, D. Its ancestry can be traced back to the Petersburg Railroad of , chartered to connected Petersburg, Virginia with Weldon, North Carolina. There were additional takeovers in the early 20th century, notably the Plant System of Florida acquired in
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