Chessie System, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Western Maryland...
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CSX Transportation (redirect from Chessie Seaboard Consolidated)
Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies that controlled...
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Chessie was a popular cat character used as a symbol of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). Derived from an etching by Viennese artist Guido Grünewald...
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CSX Corporation (redirect from Chessie Seaboard Consolidated Corporation)
1980 as part of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries merger. The various railroads of the former Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line...
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Nashville and Clinchfield—as the "Family Lines System". In 1980, SCLI merged with the Chessie System to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two...
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (redirect from Chesapeake and Ohio System)
Eaton, it became part of the Chessie System, along with the Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland Railway. The Chessie System was later combined with the...
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of railway mergers, Clement Conger convinced Hays T. Watkins of the Chessie System to loan the desk to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the United States...
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Bay, US Chessie System, a former holding company of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) Chessie (mascot), a kitten mascot of the C&O Chessie (train)...
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (redirect from Baltimore and Ohio System)
it operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System. Its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation. Founded to serve...
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Freedom Train. On March 6, 1979, while being stored one winter in a Chessie System roundhouse in Silver Grove, KY, 2101 was severely damaged in a fire...
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Seaboard Coast Line Industries (category Seaboard System Railroad)
Chessie System, Inc. to form CSX Corporation (Chessie-Seaboard Multiplied), and in 1983 the Family Lines units were combined as the Seaboard System Railroad...
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former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway into the Chessie System in 1987, which then merged with the Seaboard System to form CSX Transportation. The original main...
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railroads merged to form CSX Transportation. The Seaboard System Railroad merged with Chessie System which consisted of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and...
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Chessie System, a holding company that owned three American railroads: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a.k.a. the C&O (for which the Chessie System was...
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad (category Seaboard System Railroad)
Railroad entirely. Then in 1986, the Seaboard System merged with the C&O and B&O (known as the Chessie System) and the combined company became CSX Transportation...
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GP40N's at their Jenk's shop. These units received a microprocessor control system to increase adhesion, control options, and extend the life of the locomotive...
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outliving its parent B&O Railroad, and was kept intact by both the Chessie System and CSX Corporation. In 1990, CSX deeded the property and collection...
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holding company, the Chessie System, in 1973. The B&O continued to operate as a distinct company under the Chessie System. The Chessie System merged with Seaboard...
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Port Colborne Harbour Railway PHD - Port Huron and Detroit Railroad; Chessie System; CSX Transportation PHL - Pacific Harbor Line PI - Paducah and Illinois...
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was owned for much of its history by that company and its successors, Chessie System and CSX Corporation. Following years of heavy losses, CSX had the hotel...
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freight and passenger service on the division. The B&O's successor, the Chessie System, retained and upgraded the rails of the Valley Division to operate their...
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and May 21, 1975, for a Chessie System Passenger Special. The line was officially abandoned as part of the "Chessie System" consolidation, and all WM...
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increased their separation from other systems, simplifying maintenance for the prime mover and the electrical system. One former SD50 engineer praised the...
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Seaboard Coast Line 1972 Family Lines System 1973 Chessie System 1976 Conrail 1981 Pan Am 1982 Seaboard System East Midlands Railway 43102 InterCity (British...
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merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation. The CSX Corporation initially operated the Chessie and Seaboard Systems separately until...
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Southern Railway (U.S.) (redirect from Southern System)
as a condition of the I.C.C.'s approval of the Seaboard Coast Line – Chessie System merger in 1979. While the request was supported by the I.C.C.'s Enforcement...
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2018[update], the units remain in service on the Cimarron Valley Railroad. The Chessie System rebuilt its GP30 units into GP30Ms, adding newer components, new traction...
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railroads to group into the Chessie System, which would eventually be completely merged into the new CSX transportation system. The Cumberland-Frostburg...
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merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation. The CSX Corporation initially operated the Chessie and Seaboard Systems separately until...
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Petersburg, Russia Canadian Parliamentary Cats Chessie, the mascot of both the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Chessie System. Wong, Hiufu (24 May 2013). "The cat that...
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