(I am repeating this reply because I attempted posting
      it from a different BBS than usual and it was mutilated so
      badly as to be at least partly unreadable.)
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 -=> 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
 DE> the X comes 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/Seaboard 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 use.
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