Ever wonder what CSX is initials for? Well here i

[Anonymous]

Ever wonder what CSX was the initials for. Well I just got the time to e-mail CSX because I wanted to know also and here is the reply they gave me.

" CSX was formed in 1980 by the acquisition of the Chessie System Railway and the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The 'C' stands for Chessie, the 'S' for Seaboard. These two entities brought with them subsidiaries that were not transportation related -- resort, video, production, mineral comapny, etc. -- thus the 'X' stands for "and all others."

www.csx.com

Just thought a lot of you might be interested in that.

Adam

[Anonymous]

CHICKEN S--T XPRESS.

[thirdrail1]

Was that a statement of fact or just an opinion?

[Anonymous]

I'm sure CSX employees have other names for the initials. I've heard a few from UP and BNSF workers. The UP workers carry the phrase,"You can't spell stupid without UP." BNSF, as you could guess, has many more. such as, "Been Nothing Since Frisco" and "Benifits Not Safety First" along with several other unmentional terms. It would be interesting to see what people have come up with for CSX and NS.

[thirdrail1]

What a great many shippers and employees of other railroads think of NS will not pass the trains.com filters. How do you spell "arrogance" - NS!

[Anonymous]

Employees of CSX told me that one.And heard it from other railroads.And truckers.

[REDDYK]

Someone should compile a list of the humorous railroad nicknames that have been applied over the years. My entries would include the Lake Erie and Western, the LE&W, also known as the Leave Early and Walk. In Indiana we once had a railroad known as the Chicago, Bluffton, & Cincinnati. It never reached Chicago or Cincinnati. It was usually referred to as the Corned Beef and Cabbage. Any other favorites?

[Anonymous]

In 1986 while photographing the last days of pre-CSX power in south western Indiana, I heard CSX employees refer to it as the "Chicken S--- X-----"
My favorite is printable: "Cheap and Nothing Wasted" for CNW.

[thirdrail1]

Oh, there were plenty on the South. Like the "Sufferin' Railway", the "Clothes Line", the "Sideboard Clothes Line", the "Late and Nasty" or "Long and Nasty" and the "Gumbo Mud and Okra".

[Anonymous]

BNSF Big New Santa Fe?

[Anonymous]

There were nothing Sufferin on the SOUTHERN RAILWAY.It went SUFFERIN down hill when NORTHFOLK and WESTERN took over.

[thirdrail1]

Funny, that's what the Central of Georgia folks said when the Sufferin' Railway took them over!

[Anonymous]

Remember I was told CSX cannot end with a X so it is actually CSXT that CSX has to actually use.

The X is like a variable in Math like the XY. Say I was hauling minerals, well then it would be Chessie Seaboard Mineral Transportation, etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

Gregg I know what you mean. I have heard a lot of stuff going around about Norfolk Southern but that is from a friend that lies to me a lot so who knows if all of it or any of it is true or not!

[thirdrail1]

You are correct in that the REPORTING MARKS for RAILROADS cannot end in "X", "U" or "Z", as "X" is reserved for non-railroad marked (private) cars, "U" is reserved for containers, and "Z" is reserved for trailers. Since there is a CSX Corporation that owns steamship terminals, steamships, the "Greebrier" resort and other things as well as the railroad, CSXT also stands for CSX Transportation, Inc., which is the corporate name of the railroad. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with commodities.

[Anonymous]

I work for this company and here are some we came up with. You can read into these as much as you want, but for the most part the both ring true about how the company runs. Chicken **** eXpress, and Common Sense eXcluded.

Scott

[Anonymous]

I guess everybody hates there employer.I cant stand mine ether.CSE the trucking company they say thats what CSE stands for to.IS that part of CSX Scott.

[CHESSIEMIKE]

My how time changes memory! In a press release from 1980, CSX Transportation said the "C" stands for Chessie System Railroads, The "S" stands for Seaboard System Railroads, and the multiplication symbol "X" stands for "much more". The benefits of this merger was to be more like multipling what the two railroads brought in to it than just "adding" them together.

[cprted]

Up here in the land of ice and snow we had a railway called the Pacific Great Eastern, among the many nicknames were Please Go Easy, Province's Greatest Expense, and Prince George Eventually. They changed the name to BC Rail when PGE cars started getting confused with Pacific Gas and Electric cars in American yards. The origional name was rather amusing by itself because the railway was neither pacific nor great nor eastern.

[Anonymous]

NS=no sence,no ***ter refering to the "bucket&bag" ,no solution "CP Draw"in BUF,Nazi SonsofB@$%^ ,

[Anonymous]

Actually, Adam was wrong, i just read an article in trains magezine. the C in CSX stands for chessie system, the S stands for the seaboard coastline system, the X however stands for the two railroads "multiplied" together.

[mudchicken]

Have you all forgotten about the '80s merger that wasn't? SPSF=Shouldn't Paint So Fast (!)

[CHESSIEMIKE]

Chad,
See my post from 3/19. And it was before Trains article came out.
CHESSIEMIKE

[Anonymous]

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; CRI&P was known as the CRY & Pee

[BRAKIE]

I always like the way rail fans complain about the CSX and NS.While not a fan of todays super railroads,I can not deny the fact they haul alot of freight.Here where I live NS runs around 60 days a day with plans of adding 17 more.
Here are some funny names for some railroads. PRR,Poor Rail Road.C&O

[BRAKIE]

Sorry about that wrong click! C&O= Cabbage and onions.B&O Beef and onions.Erie-Lackawanna.Erie-Lack of money. Mobile and Ohio,More Onions.Nickel Plate Road. No Kicking Please! Chicago & Northwestern. Cheap and No Work.RF&P Rich Folks & Pedigrees.

[tankertoad70]

Then there is the GB&W, Green Bay and Western, aka Grab your baggage and wait.

[Anonymous]

NS=NAZI SOUTHERN

[Anonymous]

I WORK FOR THEM TOO...SO TRUE BROTHER..SO TRUE!

[REDDYK]

It took a while to get this thread rolling, but I love it. Keep em coming. Remember the ONTARIO AND WESTERN, otherwise known as the OLD AND WEARY.