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Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System; its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (reporting mark RFP) was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. The track is now the RF&P Subdivision of the CSX Transportation system; the original corporation is no longer a railroad company. The RF&P was a bridge line, with a slogan of "Linking North & South," on a ...
The GoFast space launch, May 17, 2004. The Civilian Space eXploration Team, also known as the CSXT, is a team of around 30 civilians interested in private spaceflight. The team was created by Ky Michaelson. Having conducted multiple rocket launches in an attempt to establish altitude records, CSXT became the first entity to officially launch an ...
Still exists as a joint subsidiary of CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway: North and South Carolina Railway: SAL: 1908 1914 Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway: Northeastern Railroad: ACL: 1851 1898 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina: ACL: 1899 1935 N/A Ohio River and Charleston Railway: SOU ...
CSX Transportation Building in Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation was formed on November 1, 1980, as a merger between Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. [4] Original logo for the CSX Corporation, emphasizing the "multiplication symbol" X. The name came about during merger talks between Chessie System and SCL, commonly called ...
The Capital Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The line runs from near Baltimore, Maryland, southwest to Washington, D.C., along the former Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) Washington Branch. [1] The subdivision's Alexandria Extension provides a ...
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...