CSX

[willy6]

what does CSX stand for?

[ironhorseman]

CSX=Can't Stand X-ing! [:-,]

No Wait!

I think it stands for Chessie, Southern, and eXtentions.

Joe can answer this question better than I can. Or, you can go up to the top of any page at Trains.com and put the letters into the search engine and you should get a comprehensive list of every railroad currently in existance on the North American continent.

The process of how CSX got it's final call letters is an interesting story I'll let someone else tell because I'll probably mix up some facts. There are some articles in the archives about CSX here at Trains.com.

Happy Hunting!

[Dough]

Ummm, I'm thinking that it isn't Southern. Soo or Seaboard maybe?[;)]

Southern merged with Norfolk Weastern, (also gobbled up the tiny and independent NS) and then took the name Norfolk Southern.

BTW here is a site that gives all of the fallen flags that make up the two railroads.

CSX
http://webpages.charter.net/highrailer05/Berkys_CSX_Page.htm
http://webpages.charter.net/highrailer05/Berkys_Norfolk_Southern_Page.htm

HTH

[ironhorseman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dough

Ummm, I'm thinking that it isn't Southern. Soo or Seaboard maybe?[;)]

Now that you said that it IS Seaboard. I remember a picture where a Chessie, a Seaboard, and a Southern locomotive posed one on top of each other at a 3 level bridge. So I guess the 'S' stands for both.

Here's the link to that thing I was refering to: http://www.trains.com/content/dynamic/articles/000/000/003/871ijytl.asp

But again, put CSX into that search engine up above and you'll get all kinds of articles.

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P.S. - after viewing those two websites I stand corrected [:)]

[Dough]

Yeah, I added some links that have the family history of each.

[JoeKoh]

Willy
C= chessie
S=seaboard
X=multiplacation symbol for the two railroads together
Norfolk Southern
a little twist with their name.Their was a norfolk southern railroad a southern rr subsidiary down in the carolinas.when southern decided to merge with the norfolk and western they changed their name to carolina & northwestern I believe.That gave the N&W and southern the green light to use the name norfolk southern.
hope this helps
stay safe
Joe

[Dough]

Yeah what Joe said. And don't worry Ironhorse, I have a hard time keeping up with who BNSF and UP have eaten...[:D]

[wabash1]

norfold southern stands for a land holding company that owns a major railroad. go to any of the ns news releases and the last paragraph in ever one will say this. they dont claim to be a railroad they use the railroad to be a tax right off .

[heavyd]

CSX is what the lawyers called the Chessie System/ Seaboard Coastline merger on paper before it actually happened. The two railroads put out company notices to all employees for their ideas as what they wanted the new name to be. The only rule was the new name had to be totally neutral. There was too much fighting about what the name should be. Once the legal part of the merger started CSX was in print on many legal documents and deeply used through-out management levels. So they just decided to stick with it! This story is in TRAINS mag somewhere.

[csxengineer98]

CSX stands for


Conrails
Southern
Xtention

csxengineer

[Anonymous]

How CSX got its name: feature story, Trains, May 2002 page 68.

If you click on Index of Magazines at the top of the page, you can do keyword searches of Trains and a lot of other railroad magazines, too.

[Anonymous]

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