CSX Transportation’s predecessors
Geographic growth by acquisition or merger, and the elimination of redundant routes by sale or abandonment, are two factors that…
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Compared here are the main lines of railroads that, for most of the 20th century, fed the nation with its…
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Commercial shipping on the Great Lakes follows a 2,300-mile corridor from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the western edge of…
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This Map of the Month was featured in the February 2009 issue of Trains magazine. The railroad Abraham Lincoln so…
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This Map of the Month appeared in the February 2004 issue of Trains magazine. Historians have argued that one key to…
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Twenty-four years separate these two density maps — a long time in North American railroading. The 1974 Penn Central map…
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An English import, the American railway diverged sharply from English ideals. Environment proved stronger than genetics — settled and industrializing…
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This Map of the Month was featured in the August 2004 issue of Trains magazine. This map shows a commodity flow,…
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This Map of the Month was featured in the March 2007 issue of Trains magazine. Imagine if you were to…
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Montana Rail Link’s Missoula-Laurel manifest freight rolls through Bearmouth, Mont., on Sept. 2, 2003. This is MRL’s 3rd Subdivision which…
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Illinois Railway Museum’s Burlington E5 No. 9911-A, and the Nebraska Zephyr occasionally makes an appearance outside of the museum. On…
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This Map of the Month appeared in the February 2005 issue of Trains magazine. Say good-bye to two successful railroads,” was…
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