Seaboard Coast Line Industries, Inc.,

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on May 9, 1969, was a

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that owned the

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was a Class I railroad company operating in the Southeastern United States beginning in 1967. Its passenger operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971. Eventually, the railroad was merged with its affiliate li ...

, its subsidiary

Louisville and Nashville Railroad The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the ...

, and several smaller carriers. Its railroad subsidiaries were collectively known as the

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. Its headquarters were in

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, in the

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. Through 1979, the Family Lines network totaled in 13 states. The company succeeded SCL Industries, Inc., incorporated August 1, 1968, in Virginia and renamed Seaboard Coast Line Industries, Inc. on February 5, 1969. On November 1, 1980, Seaboard Coast Line Industries merged with Chessie System, Inc. to form

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(Chessie-Seaboard Multiplied), and in 1983 the Family Lines units were combined as the

Seaboard System Railroad The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986. Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads—notably the Louisville & Nashv ...

. In 1986, Seaboard System was renamed CSX Transportation, and then merged with sister CSX Corp. subsidiary Chessie System to form a single new railroad, reporting mark CSXT.

External links

Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Historical Society website timeline page
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