Seaboard System Railroad
The Seaboard System Railroad (SBD) was an American railroad company . The company was based in Jacksonville (Florida) . It emerged as a transition company on the way to creating CSX Transportation . The parent company of Seaboard System was the CSX Corporation founded on November 1, 1980 . In the Seaboard System Railroad, the railroad companies, which had been marketed together under the name “Family Lines” from the mid-1970s, and which were both entrepreneurially and financially linked, were combined.
Route network
The approximately 22,500-kilometer route network included the states of Florida ( Miami , Tampa , Tallahassee ), Georgia ( Atlanta , Macon , Savannah ), Alabama ( Birmingham , Mobile ), Tennessee ( Memphis , Nashville , Chattanooga , Knoxville ), Kentucky ( Louisville ), Illinois ( Chicago ), Indiana ( Indianapolis ), South Carolina ( Charleston , Georgetown ), North Carolina ( Charlotte , Wilmington ) and Virginia ( Richmond , Norfolk ), as well as the cities of Cincinnati , St. Louis and New Orleans .
history
Seaboard Coast Line Industries , founded in 1968, began an expansion course after the company was founded. So were taken with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad , the Clinchfield Railroad , the Georgia Railroad , the Atlanta and West Point Rail Road and the Western Railway of Alabama . These companies were jointly marketed under the name “Family Lines”, but remained legally independent.
As part of a consolidation process, the Seaboard System Railroad was founded on December 29, 1982 when the Louisville and Nashville Railroad merged with the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad . On January 1, 1983, the Clinchfield Railroad was integrated into the company as the Clinchfield Division. In the same year, the other companies Georgia Railroad, Atlanta and West Point Rail Road and Western Railway of Alabama were taken over. Seaboard System also owned 40 percent of the Richmond-Washington Company, which in turn held 63.6 percent of the voting rights of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad . On July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System was renamed CSX Transportation.
From November 1980 A. Paul Funkhouser acted as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Family Lines Rail System. On May 1, 1982 Richard D. Sanborn was his successor.
