Afternoon everyone! I got the chance to go railfanning “officially” for the first time. Thought you might like to see some pics of what I saw:
An ex Conrail SD50 and a CSX 8-40CW head light towards the engine servicing facility at the Wyoming Yard in Wyoming, MI.
An NS yard transfer stopped near a road crossing. Never did find out what it was waiting for.
A Conrad Yelvington SW9 switching limestone cars at the Wyoming Yard.
Ex C&O Russell sitting in the Wyoming Yard.
The same engines that headed light past me earliar. Evedently the SD50 was low on water and wasn’t communicating with the EOT, so they put the 8-40CW on the point instead. Hear they are heading east out of the yard with a mixed freight.
Okay, I’m finally gonna ask the dumb question (at least, feel dumb for not asking it before this). I hear you guys talking about CSX, but I never see a full name. What line is it? Seems to have some mighty loyal fans here.
I suspect Chesapeake Seaboard . When these two lines merged they brought with them subsidiaries
not transported related, thus the X represents these entities.
C&O (Chesapeake and Ohio) took over B & O years ago. Then Western Maryland was swallewed up and for a few years in the 1970s we saw “Chessy System”. Atlantic Coast Line (which used to be Atlantic Air Line and Seaboard Coast Line or vice versa?)and others ended up in the “Family Lines System” The holding company which swallowed up ALL of this is “CSX”. Recently CSX and NS (Norfolk Southern-formarly Norfolk & Western and Southern RR) divided up Conrail (which used to be Pennsylvania, New York Central, Reading, Lehigh Valley, etc. and on and on, and then some). I doubt that CSX stands for anything. It’s just like RCA used to stand for “Radio Corporation of America”. Eventually their manufacturers labels read “RCA Corporation” (Radio CORPORATION of America CORPORATION?). RCA had reached the point of not standing for anything, but just being a name “RCA”. Here in Kansas City we used to have United Missouri Bank. Then it began to be advertised as UMB. Now it’s UMB Bank (United Missouri Bank Bank?). Obviously UMB no longer stands for anything, it’s just UMB. American corporate giants are funny that way. There is an office supply company doing business here that has a more colorful history to their name. IKON Office Products used be several smaller office supply places with different names all under one ownership. One day someone had a bright idea and they all became IKON (I Know One Name). Ain’t American business fun?
CSX CSX was formed in 1980 by the acquisition of the Chessie System Railway and the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad - thus the “C” and the “S”. These two entities brought with them subsidiaries that were not transportation related, i.e., resort, video production, mineral company, etc. - thus the “X”, which stands for “and all others”. The actual approvals of the combined railroads occurred in 1987. In 1999, CSX completed its share of the takeover of Conrail. CSX Transportation, Inc. is a major railroad line in the eastern United States and serves 23 States, the District of Columbia, and Ontario and Quebec Canada. The road currently operates over 23,000 miles of track, rosters over 4,000 locomotives and more than 100,000 freight cars.
