CSX Transportation

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CSX Transportation
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Reporting marks CSX
Locale Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
Dates of operation 1986 – present
Headquarters Jacksonville, Florida

CSX Transportation (AAR reporting marks CSXT) is a Class I Railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the two Class I's serving most of the east coast, the other being the Norfolk Southern Railway.

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[edit] History

Main article: List of CSX Transportation predecessor railroads

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 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 and Seaboard System Railroad, 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.

[edit] CSX Divisions

CSX operates two regions, they are split by the Northern Region which is based out of Calumet City, IL and has five divisions, and the Southern Region based out of Jacksonville, FL which also has five divisions. Within these regions CSX has 10 divisions.

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

[edit] Unit trains

CSX operates the Juice Train, train numbers K651 and K650, a famous unit train of Tropicana fresh orange juice between Bradenton, Florida, and distribution centers in 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.

CSX also runs daily trash trains out from New York City, bound for Florida, train numbers K206/K207 and K276/K277. These trains usually consist of about fifty cars with four twenty foot containers of trash on each.

Another style of unit train is a local trash train, ID # D765 that runs between Derwood Maryland and Dickerson Maryland. The train runs daily except Sunday, sometimes twice a day around busy holidays. Trash is carried from the Montgomery County Transfer to an incinerator off the PEPCO lead in Dickerson. The trip is roughly 17 miles, and the train is made up of NSC built double stacks, holding 40' containers. The first NEMX double stacks were 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, power was a GP40-2/RDMT slug set, but the train has grown to a heavy 40 cars or so. Power is now most often a duo of SD50s

[edit] Locomotives

CSX has a few famous locomotives around the system, the locomotive number will be in Bold text (the current paint scheme is blue and gold):

[edit] Major hump yards

CSX operates a number of large classification yards around the system that include "hump" 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. The larger yards are located in:

  • Avon, IN - Avon Yard
  • Cincinnati, OH - Queensgate Yard
  • Atlanta, GA - Tilford Yards
  • Waycross, GA - Rice Classification Yard
  • Selkirk, NY - Alfred E. Perlman Yard
  • Toledo, OH - Stanley Yard and Walbridge Yard
  • Buffalo, NY - Frontier Yard
  • Birmingham, AL - Boyles Yard
  • Nashville, TN - Radnor Yard
  • Louisville, KY - Prime F. Osborn Yard
  • Cumberland, MD
  • Willard, OH
  • Hamlet, NC

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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