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Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Chessie System, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Western Maryland Railway (WM), and Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (B&OCT). Trains operated under the Chessie name from 1973 to 1987.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of ...
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 ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 835 miles (1,344 km) [ 1] The Western Maryland Railway ( reporting mark WM) was an American Class I railroad (1852–1983) that operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It was primarily a coal hauling and freight railroad, with a small passenger train operation.
The Family Lines System and the Chessie System became subsidiaries of the newly created CSX Corporation on November 1, 1980, but continued to operate as separate railroads. [23] The Family Lines name and logo were dropped when all of the Family Lines merged on December 29, 1982, to form the Seaboard System. [24]
CSX Transportation's system map as of 2009. The following railroads merged to form CSX Transportation.. The Seaboard System Railroad merged with Chessie System which consisted of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and Western Maryland Railroad to form CSX Transportation July 1, 1986.
Sand Patch Grade. A B&O ( Chessie System) EMD GP40-2 enters the Sand Patch Tunnel eastbound in 1987. Sand Patch Grade is an approximately 100-mile-long (160 km) section of railroad track known for its steep grades and curves through the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and western Maryland. [ 1] Dropping over 1,000 feet (300 m) in about 20 ...
The Cumberland Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the Cumberland, Maryland area. The line centers on the Cumberland rail yard and is a junction with three other subdivisions. The line was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) in the 1850s as part of its original main line, known then as ...