13 May 97 16:41, Don Dellmann wrote to Mike Hudson:
 DD> While tripping merrily through the mail, Mike Hudson was overheard
 MH>> I'd like to know where you got this information from...because
 MH>> this is the first time I've ever heard that vanicular for CSX.
 MH>> The X stands for Corporation, as is on many freight cars UTLX,
 MH>> GATX, etc... The C stands for Chessie System The S stands for
 MH>> Seaboard System.
 DD> In the AAR reporting marks the "X" actually stands for a private owner
 DD> as opposed tp cars owned bu a "common carrier". (UTLX, Union Tank
 DD> Lines, GATX, General American Tank {or transportation}, etc.)
Do you think the highly paid PR people who came up with "CSX" ever heard of 
that?
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