Pere Marquette is the newest heritage unit to join the growing CSX fleet of locomotives honoring its predecessor railroads.
“Here is our latest CSX Heritage Locomotive celebrating the Pere Marquette line,” CEO Joe Hinrichs wrote on LinkedIn Monday night. “Locomotive #1899 represents the three Michigan-based railroads that merged to form the Pere Marquette to serve the Great Lakes region in the early 1900s. Another great job by our ONE CSX team in Waycross, GA. Enjoy everyone! Going to be an exciting next few months for our heritage locomotive program as we continue to celebrate and recognize the railroads that helped make CSX who we are today.”
The locomotive, which wears the PM passenger scheme, rolled out of the paint shop in Waycross and posed for photos.
The Pere Marquette became a fallen flag when it was merged into Chesapeake & Ohio in 1947.
The CSX heritage fleet now numbers a baker’s dozen units representing predecessor lines. Among them: Family Lines; Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; Baltimore & Ohio; Chessie System; Seaboard System; Conrail; Chesapeake & Ohio; Louisville & Nashville; Atlantic Coast Line; New York Central; Monon; and Western Maryland.
