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Seaboard Air Line

Railroad History

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          Although the earliest portions of the Seaboard's rail system was laid between 1833 and 1835 as the Portsmouth and Weldon Railroad, the name "Seaboard Air Line Railway" wasn't used until around 1888 when it was applied to a group of smaller railroads/railways which operated under the partnership name "Seaboard Air Line Railway."  The name became the officially organized and formally recognized name in the year 1900 when all of the small roads merged into one company.  The Seaboard operated under this name until it was reorganized as the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (instead of Railway) in 1946 after and due to a period of financial problems during the depression and war years where it went into receivership.  The Seaboard operated under its new name until July 1, 1967 when it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to be come the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.  Later, in 1972, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad formed a partnership called "The Family Lines System" with a number of other railroads such as the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Clinchfield Railroad, and West Point Route (which was a marketing name for the joint operations of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and Western Railway of Alabama).  These partners merged into one company in 1982 becoming known as the Seaboard System Railroad.  Finally, in 1986, the Seaboard System Railroad merged with the Chessie System Railroad to become what is known today as CSX Transportation.

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