CSX Transportation

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CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States. The main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation, the railroad is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km).^[1] CSX operates one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and Canadian Pacific Railway. It also serves the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Together CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway have a duopoly over all east-west freight rail traffic east of the Mississippi River. As of October 1, 2014 CSX's total public stock value was slightly over $32 billion.

History

CSX Transportation was formed on July 1, 1986, by combining the Chessie System and Seaboard System Railroad. The originator of the Seaboard System was the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which previously merged Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1967, and later Louisville & Nashville Railroad, as well as several smaller subsidiaries such as the Clinchfield Railroad, Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Georgia Railroad. On August 31, 1987, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which had absorbed the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on April 30 of that year, merged into CSX.^[2]

On June 23, 1997, CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide, and operate the assets of the 11,000 miles (18,000 km) 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–NS application and set August 22, 1998, as the effective date of its decision. CSX acquired 42 percent of Conrail's assets, and NS received the remaining 58 percent. As a result of the transaction, CSX's rail operations grew to include some 3,800 miles (6,100 km) 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.^[3]

CSX divisions

Northern Region Divisions

• Great Lakes Division, based in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Chicago Division, based in Calumet City, Illinois
• Albany Division, based in Selkirk, New York
• Baltimore Division, based in Baltimore, Maryland
• Louisville Division, based in Cincinnati, Ohio

One line in the Northern Region travels into Canada:

• Montreal Subdivision (Albany Division) from Massena, New York, to Kahnawake, Quebec

Southern Region Divisions

• Atlanta Division, based in Atlanta, Georgia
• Huntington Division, based in Huntington, West Virginia
• Nashville Division, based in Nashville, Tennessee
• Florence Division, based in Florence, South Carolina
• Jacksonville Division, based in Jacksonville, Florida (at Dufford Center)