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On June 7, 1970, beginning on Seaboard Coast Line railroad, a mile-long Tropicana Juice Train began carrying one million gallons of juice with one weekly round-trip from Bradenton, Florida to Kearny, New Jersey, in the New York City area. The trip spanned 1,250 miles (2,010 km) one way, and the 60 car train was the equivalent of 250 trucks.
The Seaboard System's roots trace back to SCL Industries, a holding company created in 1968 that combined the Seaboard Coast Line's subsidiary railroads into one entity. In 1969, SCL was renamed Seaboard Coast Line Industries, which was known as the Family Lines System from 1972-1982, to better compete with the Southern Railway System. This ...
155 locomotives were rebuilt by the Seaboard Coast Line. The vast majority of them came from Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and their subsidiaries (Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Georgia Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama, Winston-Salem Southbound Railway); eight units came from Clinchfield Railroad (with one of them ex Nashville ...
The largest owner of the SD45-2 was the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe with 90 units, the Clinchfield had 18 units, Seaboard Coast Line had 15 units and Erie Lackawanna rostered 13 units. A few cabless SD45-2Bs were built by Santa Fe from units undergoing remanufacturing.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: 36 8040–8066, 8087–8094, 8130 Delivered in Family Lines Paint, to Seaboard System, now in service with CSX Transportation. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway: 8 950–957 Merged with Burlington Northern in 1980, renumbered BN 6840-6847 - same numbers in BNSF. Now in service with the BNSF Railway. Soo Line ...
Seaboard Air Line Railway: Pee Dee Valley Railway: ACL: 1909 1910 Rockingham Railway: Petersburg Railroad: ACL: 1831 1898 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Piedmont Railroad: SOU: 1862 1894 Southern Railway: Piedmont Railway: ACL/ N&W: 1909 1912 Carolina and Yadkin River Railway: Piedmont and Northern Railway: P&N 1914 1969 Seaboard Coast Line ...
Postcard illustrating the allure of streamliner travel to Florida, along with the "citrus" paint scheme used on SAL's EMD diesel locomotives from 1939 to 1954.. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (reporting mark SAL), known colloquially as the Seaboard Railroad during its time, was an American railroad that existed from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast ...
In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged with its arch-rival, the Atlantic Coast Line railroad to form Seaboard Coast Line Industries (SCL). SCL merged with the Chessie System in 1980, to form CSX Transportation, which is currently one of seven major Class 1 railroads operating in North America in the 21st century.