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.jpg) A Seaboard freight train crosses the James River at Richmond, Virginia, in October 1985. | |
| Overview | |
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| Headquarters | Seaboard System Railroad Building, 500 Water Street, Jacksonville, Florida |
| Reporting mark | SBD |
| Locale | Southeastern United States |
| Dates of operation | December 29, 1982–July 1, 1986 |
| Predecessors | Seaboard Coast Line Louisville and Nashville Clinchfield Railroad Georgia Railroad Atlanta and West Point Railroad Western Railway of Alabama |
| Successor | CSX Transportation |
The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986.
Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads—notably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield—as the "Family Lines System". In 1980, SCLI merged with the Chessie System to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two years later, CSX merged the Family Lines railroads to create the Seaboard System Railroad.
In 1986, Seaboard renamed itself CSX Transportation, which absorbed the Chessie System's two major railroads the following year.