CSX Transportation

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CSX Transportation

A map of CSX Transportation's train routes with trackage rights in purple, as of 2009
CSX 660, a GE AC6000CW, westbound at Point of Rocks, Maryland
Overview
Headquarters	CSX Transportation Building, 500 Water Street, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Reporting mark	CSXT
Locale	Northeastern, Southern, Midwestern United States and Eastern Canada
Dates of operation	July 1, 1986; 38 years ago (1986-07-01)–present
Predecessors	List Chessie System Seaboard System Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Western Maryland Railroad Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Georgia Railroad and Banking Company Conrail Pan Am Railways
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	21,000 miles (34,000 km)
Other
Website	csx.com

CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT), known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km) of track,^[1] it is the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.^[2][3]

CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies that controlled railroads operating in the Eastern United States. Initially only a holding company, the subsidiaries that made up CSX Corporation completed merging in 1987. CSX Transportation formally came into existence in 1986, as the successor of Seaboard System Railroad. In 1999, CSX Transportation acquired about half of Conrail in a joint purchase with competitor Norfolk Southern Railway. In 2022, it acquired Pan Am Railways, extending its reach into northern New England.

Norfolk Southern remains CSX's chief competitor; the two share a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the east half of the US.