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| Reporting marks | SCL |
| Locale | Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia |
| Dates of operation | 1967–1983 |
| Successor | Seaboard System |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) |
| Headquarters | Jacksonville, FL and Richmond, VA |
The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (AAR reporting marks SCL) was created July 1, 1967 as a result of the merger of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Effective January 1, 1983, The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad became Seaboard System Railroad as a result of a merger with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Clinchfield Railroad. For some years prior to this, the SCL and L&N had been under the common ownership of a holding company, Seaboard Coast Line Industries (SCI), the company's railroad subsidiaries being collectively known as the Family Lines System which consisted of the L&N, SCL, Clinchfield and West Point Routes. During this time, the railroads adopted the same paint schemes, but continued to operate as separate railroads. At the time of the merger in 1967, the combined system had nearly 10,000 miles of track and 23,000 employees.1 After the 1980 merger of SCL with the Chessie System, the resulting CSX Corporation combined the Family Lines System units as the Seaboard System Railroad and later became CSX Transportation when the former Chessie units merged with the SCL in 1986.
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Notable SCL services
Juice Train: a historic model of unit train competition
Juice Train is the popular name for famous unit trains of Tropicana fresh orange juice operated by railroads in the United States. In 1970, beginning on Seaboard Coast Line railroad, a mile-long Tropicana Juice Train train began carrying one million gallons of juice with one weekly round-trip from Bradenton, Florida to Kearny, New Jersey, in the New York City area.
Today operated by SCL successor CSX Transportation, CSX Juice Trains have been the focus of efficiency studies and awards as examples of how modern rail transportation can compete successfully against trucking and other modes to carry perishable products.
Divisions
- Jacksonville
- Tampa
- Waycross
- Florence
- Atlanta
- Rocky Mount
- Savannah
- Raleigh
- CN&L
- GM Railroad
History
The Western and Atlantic Railroad is famous for the Great Locomotive Chase, which took place on the W&A during the US Civil War in April 1862.
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