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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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 Transportation (redirect from Chessie Seaboard Consolidated)
Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. The name came about during merger talks between Chessie System and SCL, commonly called "Chessie"...
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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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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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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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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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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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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. The railroad...
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a small passenger train operation. The WM became a property of the Chessie System holding company in 1973, although it continued independent operations...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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control of CSX Transportation ever since the 1980 merger between both the Chessie System and the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. Trains portal United States portal...
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by the Chessie System, Western Development, Inland Steel, and other landowners, would be purchased by a joint venture owned by the Chessie System and Western...
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and Southern Railway Burlington Northern Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Chessie System Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Chicago...
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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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Seaboard Air Line Railroad (redirect from Seaboard Air Line System)
form the Seaboard System. On July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System's name was changed to CSX Transportation. Subsequently, the Chessie System was merged into...
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today (with fewer stops) as the Amtrak Crescent. The music video shows Chessie System trains running around Clifton Forge, Virginia.[citation needed] Guitarist...
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Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O), to create "The Chessie System Railroad." The Chessie System merged with the Seaboard System Railroad to create CSX in 1987, with...
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Wooden toy train (redirect from Wooden railway systems)
Wooden toy trains are toy trains that run on a wooden track system with grooves to guide the wheels of the rolling stock. While the trains, tracks and...
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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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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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