Hi Reggie
On (11 May 97) Reggie Arford wrote to Alec Cameron...
RA> AC>I don't know the abbreviation CSX. Something South TeXas?
RA> Nope! That's the actual name of the company. The Chesapeake & Ohio,
RA> Baltimore & Ohio, and (I think?) the Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac
RA> were merged to form The Chessy System; then
Thanks for the run- down on "transcontinental" business. AUS is about the
ame
width as US, but we have just one cross- country railroad. I rode it just
once, in 1951. Steam loco, oil fired, just one car was airconditioned- the
diner. Cheers. .........ALEC
... Drive? I'll take the train as the good Lord intended! ^oo oo^oo oo^
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