Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX tweets

CSX tweeted in past few hours a link to this on Histrory Channel website...
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-trains

as well as a RT of a picture of a CSX engine and a tropicana car, and a tweet to #RRHistory mentioning 2013 is B&O 50th anniversary of joing the CSX family.

As well not sure what CSX facination with the History Channel but yesterday tweeted about checking out a program on History Channel.

md Wrote:
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> and a tweet to #RRHistory
> mentioning 2013 is B&O 50th anniversary of joing
> the CSX family.

Not sure what this means. CSX did not exist in 1963, but is that the year B&O came under C&O control?

Good call....
from wikipedia.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway took financial control of the B&O in 1963. The B&O already had a controlling interest in the Western Maryland Railway. In 1973 the three railroads were brought together under one corporate identity, the Chessie System, although they continued to operate as separate railroads. The Western Maryland was merged into the B&O in 1976. In 1980 the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, a holding company that owned the Seaboard Coast Line, the Louisville & Nashville, the Clinchfield, and the Georgia Railroad, agreed to form CSX Corporation. SCL Industries was renamed the Seaboard System Railroad (SBD) in 1983. SBD was renamed CSX Transportation (CSX) in 1986. In April 1987 the B&O's corporate existence ended when it was absorbed into CSX Transportation.[16]

Those retweets were from drawings done by andy fletcher and the history channel program mankind. I think csx had sponsorship of the series.

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toledopatch Wrote:
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> md Wrote:
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> > and a tweet to #RRHistory
> > mentioning 2013 is B&O 50th anniversary of
> joining
> > the CSX family.
>
> Not sure what this means. CSX did not exist in
> 1963, but is that the year B&O came under C&O
> control?
There are rumors that CSX will be doing something special in 2013. Could they possibly be thinking of painting some engines in historic colors? Who knows?
Merry Christmas to all.

Maybe they are funding the Big Boy........

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January 1, 2013 IS the 30th anniversary of the formation of Seaboard System. Good enough reason for SCL, L&N, Georgia, Clinchfield, A&WP, WofA and Gainesville Midland schemes for me. SD40 types, please.

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