-=> Quoting David Epling to Andrew Hamblyn <=-
 -> AC> I don't know the abbreviation CSX. Something South TeXas?
 ->
 -> It goes something like Chesapeake Seaboard and ... something else..
 -> from its ancestors.
 -> Cant remember...
 DE> Try...Consolidated States Transportaion...beats me where the X comes
 DE> in, but that's what it stands for... David,      You may be confusing 
this with Consolidated Rail Corporation, which is the full corporate name of 
Conrail, not CSX.      CSX Transportation has no expanded form of its name.  
It is simply CSX.      Some of the notions put forth by CSX at the time that 
name was adopted were that the "C" was for Chesapeake and Ohio, the "S" was 
for Seaboard Coast Line/Seabord System, and that the "X" meant their 
combination multiplied the effectiveness of the merged companies, or that "X" 
represented the additional vigor that would be obtained by the merger.      
As I recall, by this time the C&O (and the management of the combined 
company) did not like the term "Chessie System" and rigorously avoided its 
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