On 10 May 97  23:19:00, Wes Leatherock said the following to David Epling:
WL>  -=> Quoting David Epling to Andrew Hamblyn <=-
 -> AC> I don't know the abbreviation CSX. Something South TeXas?
WL>  ->
 -> It goes something like Chesapeake Seaboard and ... something else..
 -> from its ancestors.
 -> Cant remember...
WL> 
WL>  DE> Try...Consolidated States Transportaion...beats me where the X comes
WL>  DE> in, but that's what it stands for... David,      You may be 
onfusing
WL> this with Consolidated Rail Corporation, which is the full corporate name 
o
WL> Conrail, not CSX.      CSX Transportation has no expanded form of its 
name.
WL> It is simply CSX.      Some of the notions put forth by CSX at the time 
tha
WL> name was adopted were that the "C" was for Chesapeake and Ohio, the "S" 
was
WL> for Seaboard Coast Line/Seabord System, and that the "X" meant their
WL> combination multiplied the effectiveness of the merged companies, or that 
"
WL> represented the additional vigor that would be obtained by the merger.    
 
Ahhhh righto...
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