> Nope! That's the actual name of the company. The Chesapeake & Ohio,
> Baltimore & Ohio, and (I think?) the Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac
> were merged to form The Chessy System; then that merged with someone
> else, and they wound up with the /name/ "CSX". The other major
> railroad in the SE USA is the Norfolk Southern, originally the Norfolk
> & Western, The Southern, etc. The CSX and N.S. are buying Conrail (the
> major railroad of the northeastern US, and will split it up; with the
> Conrail name being lost. As yet, there are no true coast to coast US
> railroads. The "transcontinental" business was because it linked
> California & the West Coast with /the rest of the US rail system/. 
 
The Richmond Fredricksburg & Potomac was an independent line linking the 
northern lines and south until several years after the formation of CSX 
corporation.  They were later absorbed into CSX, much to the dismay of 
the local railfan population.  They were regarded as a family by 
employees and railfans alike, and were known for much higher maintenance 
standards and better employee treatment than most other railroad 
companies.  It dated from the middle 1800's.   I have been known to 
railfan there.
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