CSX recognizes railroad heritage with predecessor emblems on locomotives NEWSWIRE

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation will recognize its rich history with commemorative predecessor logos applied to locomotives beginning this year. Last week, photos from the railroad’s Waycross, Ga., locomotive shops showed freshly painted GE AC44CW No. 256 displaying a Seaboard Coast Line emblem on the locomotives engineers side nose. The locomotive had just emerged from the railroad’s paint booth wearing CSX’s YN3b scheme.

CSX spokesperson Kristin Seay tells Trains News Wire that CSX plans to feature at least 10 individual predecessor logos, but a final number has not yet been determined.

“Over the last 187 years, railroad mergers and acquisitions formed CSX’s present day 21,000 mile, 23 state rail network that connects every major metropolitan area in the eastern U.S. and links more than 240 short-line railroads and 70 ocean, river and lake ports. In honor of the predecessor railroads that built our company, CSX is displaying their logos on its locomotives,” she says. “The Seaboard Coast Line is one of the first predecessor logos CSX has displayed. It will be followed by others that have contributed to CSX’s heritage dating back to the country’s first common carrier, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, chartered in 1827.”

Each predecessor logo will be applied to one individual locomotive. The total number of railroads to be featured is to be determined and locomotives will be selected as they come in for scheduled repaint and repair.

CSXT No. 256 was still at the railroad’s Waycross facility on Monday.

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