CSX Transportation (CSXT)

Railroads

CSX Transportation (reporting marks "CSXT") is a Class I freight railroad operating roughly 21,000 miles of track in 23 states east of the Mississippi River and two Canadian provinces. It is the principal operating railroad of CSX Corporation and one of the two dominant carriers in the Eastern United States, alongside Norfolk Southern.

History

  • November 1980 - CSXT's parent company, CSX Corporation, formed through the merger of Chessie System, Inc. and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, the parent companies of the C&O, B&O, Western Maryland Railway (WM), and Seaboard Coast Line (SCL).
  • 1982 - Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. formed through the merger of Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) with the Louisville & Nashville and other Family Lines railroads (additional Family Lines roads were folded in over the following years).
  • 1986 - Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. was renamed CSX Transportation (CSXT).
  • April 1987 - Chessie System subsidiary B&O merged into C&O.
  • August 1987 - Chessie System merged into CSX Transportation.
  • 1999 - CSX absorbed roughly half of Conrail's network, split jointly with Norfolk Southern.

Operations

CSX hauls coal, intermodal containers, chemicals, automotive products, agricultural goods, and general merchandise across the Eastern seaboard, the Midwest, and the Southeast. Its network reaches major Atlantic and Gulf ports and connects with Western carriers at the Mississippi gateways. CSX Transportation remains one of the six North American Class I railroads in operation today.