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CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation
started in 1982 with the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries to form the CSX Corporation.
CSX’s headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, with the Florida East Coast Railway bridge in the background
System map (trackage rights in purple)
Reporting mark Locale Dates of operation Track gauge Headquarters
CSXT Eastern United States, Ontario, and Quebec July 1, 1986– 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) Jacksonville, Florida
CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway. This railroad also serves the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
History
CSX Transportation was formed on July 1, 1986 as a renaming of the Seaboard System Railroad and Chessie System, Inc. into one entity. The originator of the Seaboard System was the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which previously merged Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and later Louisville and Nashville Railroad, as well as several smaller subsidiaries. On August 31, 1987 the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which had absorbed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on April 30 of that year, merged into CSX. The merger had been
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, and Norfolk Southern received the remaining 58%. As a result of the transaction, CSX’s rail operations grew to include some 3,800 miles of the Conrail system (predominantly lines that had belonged to the former New York Central Railroad). CSX began operating its trains on its portion of the Conrail network on June 1, 1999. CSX now serves much of the eastern U.S., with a few routes into nearby Canadian cities.
The original logo for the CSX Corporation, emphasizing the "multiplication symbol" X
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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 its 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." The T had to be added to use CSXT as a reporting mark, since company initials that end in X typically are for rental railcars.[1]
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Southern Region based out of Jacksonville, Florida which also has five divisions.
CSX rail tunnel at Harper’s Ferry, in the Baltimore Division Northern Region Divisions • Great Lakes Division • Chicago Division • Albany Division • Baltimore Division • Louisville Division Southern Region Divisions • Atlanta Division • Huntington Division • Nashville Division • Florence Division • Jacksonville Division
CSX Divisions
Unit trains
CSX operates the Juice Train, train numbers Q740 and Q741, a notable unit train of Tropicana fresh orange juice between Bradenton, Florida, and distribution centers in the Greenville section of 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. The Coke Express is a coke train that runs between Pittsburgh and Chicago, and other places in the rust belt, carrying Coke (fuel) to industries such as power plants and steel mills. CSX also runs daily trash trains out from New York City, bound for Florida, train numbers Q706/Q707 and Q702/Q703. These trains usually consist of about 50 cars with four 20 foot containers of trash on each.
CSX Railroad tracks in Clearwater, Florida, in the Jacksonville Division CSX operates two regions: the Northern Region which is based out of Calumet City, Illinois and has five divisions, and the
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Another style of unit train is a local trash train, D765, runs between Derwood, Maryland and Dickerson, Maryland. The train runs daily except Sunday, sometimes twice a day around holidays. Trash is carried from Montgomery County’s Shady Grove Transfer Station to a waste-to-energy plant located off the PEPCO lead to Mirant’s Dickerson Generating Station. The trip is roughly 17 miles, and the train is made up of National Steel Car Company-built well cars, hauling 40 foot containers. The first NEMX equipment was built when the D765 first started operations in 1997. In recent years, the fleet has been somewhat upgraded, repainted, and some entirely new cars have been constructed. In the early days, the locomotives powering the train were a GP40-2/RDMT slug set, but the train has since grown to roughly 40 cars. The locomotives that now routinely power the train are a pair of EMD SD50s.
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CSXT SD40-2 8449, seen in Senatobia, Mississippi, on former IC rails pulling an auto train, is showing off the YN3 Paint, also known as the "dark future" paint scheme. C. S. Jackson Photo. will be in bold text (the current paint scheme is blue and gold): • , a GE AC4400CW, is lettered the Spirit Of West Virginia • , a GE AC4400CW, is lettered the Spirit of Clinchfield • , a GE AC4400CW, is lettered the Spirit of Brunswick • , a GE AC4400CW, is lettered the Spirit of Dante • , a GE AC4400CW, is lettered the Spirit of Magnolia • , a GE ’CW44AH’, ballasted and equipped with low speed high adhesion hardware and software, and is lettered the Spirit of Grafton • , a GE AC6000CW, is lettered the Spirit of Waycross • , a GE AC6000CW, is lettered the Spirit of Maryland • , a GE AC6000CW, is commonly known as the Devil’s Express (Has Devil’s Train Spray painted under numbers) • , is a GE CW44-6, rebuilt from an AC6000CW with a prime mover from an AC4400CW, and is painted in the diversity in motion scheme, was the test bed for the CW44-6 downgrades, which while short lived, were done without changing the prime mover • First RDMT built from GP40, only RDMT with nose mounted headlights • is an EMD GP38-2 that is lettered Franklin M. Garrett and Spirit Of Atlanta for the famous Atlanta historian (Unit assigned to Atlanta, GA)
Locomotives
Typical motive power.
CSXT SD40-2 8376 showing off the YN2 paint scheme (commonly known as the bright future paint scheme). Jason Trew Photo CSX has numerous named locomotives around the system, the locomotive number
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• is an EMD GP38-2 still in Seaboard System paint. It has been since repainted into the YN3 scheme. • is an EMD SD70MAC that is lettered the Spirit of Cumberland (formerly numbered 700) • is an EMD SD70MAC that is lettered the Spirit of Nashville (formerly numbered 789) • is an EMD SD80MAC that is lettered the Spirit of Benning (formerly numbered 800), and is the only former Conrail SD80MAC spirit locomotive • is an EMD SD40 that was the last CSX locomotive still in C&O paint. It has been since repainted into the YN3 scheme. • is an EMD SD70M that is lettered the Spirit of Mulberry • is an EMD SD70M that is lettered the Spirit of Tampa • is an EMD SD70M that is lettered the Spirit of Miami
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• is an EMD SD50-2, a homegrown downgrade from an SD50, only SD50 or SD50-2 in "stealth" scheme variant • is an EMD SD40-2, rebuilt by Conrail with a 16-cylinder engine and redesignated as an SD40-2, ex Conrail 6661, built as Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 3676, November 1972. • is an EMD SD40-2, often called Crazy Eights by railfans following two separate incidents in Ohio: a well publicized runaway train[2][3] and a derailment[4] • is an EMD SD40-2, rebuilt by Conrail with a 16-cylinder engine and redesignated as an SD40-2, ex Conrail 6663, built as Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 3678, November 1972. • is an EMD SD40-2, rebuilt by Conrail with a 16-cylinder engine and redesignated as an SD40-2, ex Conrail 6658, built as Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 3673, November 1972. Former Conrail locomotives can be spotted by recognizing phase differences in engine models and numbering. Other spotting details can be inconsistent, but can include a number of the following: Class lights, Leslie model RS3L air horns, former Conrail SD40-2s ride on Flexicoil "C" trucks and have anticlimbers, ditch lights mounted beneath the anticlimber, modified "Bright Future" paint with battery box faces painted yellow versus black or blue. CSX has created a new paint scheme, known as YN3, which debuted in 2002 on EMD SD50 8503 [1], now downgraded to an SD50-2. Currently, CSX has over 1000 YN3-painted locomotives.
Locomotive #5000 • , and 5001 are both GE AC6000CWs decorated with a "Diversity in Motion" logo on the side • is a GE ES44DC that is lettered the Spirit of Cincinnati • is a GE B30-7 that is lettered the Spirit of Cartersville • is an EMD GP40-2 that was the last locomotive painted in Chessie System colors, rebuilt from a wrecked GP40 • is an EMD GP40-2 that had the first road number B&O 1977 • is an EMD GP40-2, formerly Chessie System GM50 • is another EMD GP40-2 that was the second locomotive that had B&O 1977 • is an EMD SD40-2, named Colonel Phillip Hooper
Currently operating hump yards
CSX operates a number of large classification yards around the system that include "hump yard" operations. Trains are slowly pushed over a small manmade hill as cars are uncoupled at the crest of the hill and allowed to roll down the hump into the appropriate tracks for outbound trains. These yards are also referred to as gravity yards. These are located at:[5] • Atlanta, Georgia - Tilford Yard • Avon, Indiana - Avon Yard • Birmingham, Alabama - Boyles Yard
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• Buffalo, New York - Frontier Yard (In April 2009 CSX announced plans to close this yard as a hump) • Cincinnati, Ohio - Queensgate Yard • Cumberland, Maryland - Cumberland Terminal/west hump yard • Hamlet, North Carolina - Hamlet Yard • Louisville, Kentucky - Prime F. Osborn Yard • Nashville, Tennessee - Radnor Yard • Newark, New Jersey - Oak Island Yard, shared with Norfolk Southern • Russell, Kentucky - Russell Yard • Selkirk, New York - Selkirk Yard • Toledo, Ohio - Stanley Yard • Waycross, Georgia - Rice Yard • Willard, Ohio • • • • • • • •
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CSX History CSX Photo Archives CSX News CSX timetables (partial listing) CSX critic website CSX locomotive roster CSX radio transmissions, Hamlet, NC CSX Photo Gallery * Page 1 of 7 * Stan’s RailPix
See also
• List of CSX Transportation lines • List of CSX Transportation predecessor railroads • History of railroads in Michigan • CSX milepost prefixes
References
[1] Dolinger, Milt (2006-05-01). "How CSX got its name". Trains magazine online. http://www.trains.com/trn/ default.aspx?c=a&id=274. [2] "Runaway train stopped". http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/05/15/ runaway.train.05/. Retrieved on 2008-02-25. [3] "Rail workers describe how they stopped runaway train". http://archives.cnn.com/ 2001/US/05/16/runaway.train/. Retrieved on 2008-02-25. [4] "CSXT locomotive 8888 gets into trouble again". http://www.utu.org/worksite/ detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=5612. Retrieved on 2008-02-25. [5] Trains Magazine (July 8, 2006). "North America’s Hump Yards". http://www.trains.com/trn/ default.aspx?c=a&id=537. Retrieved on June 27 2008.
External links
• CSX official website • CSX block signal aspects Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_Transportation"
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