A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material 1939-1985
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CSX Transportation (Firm)
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CSX Corporation is the parent company of a number of subsidiaries that provide freight transportation services. Formed in 1980, CSX Transportation operates the eastern United States' largest rail network and is the main business unit of CSX Corporation. CSXT provides rail freight transportation consists of more than 23,000 route miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. CSXT headquarters are in Jacksonville, Fla. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appal...
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
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The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company was a railroad that served the southeastern part of the United States. From the description of Employee Pass, 1899 March 4. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49251564 Chartered in 1850 and also known as the L & N Railroad and Old Reliable. It was a small regional railroad until after the Civil War when it underwent expansion into a major Midwestern and Southern area railroad stretching from Louisville, to ...
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
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In 1898, Congress passed the Erdman Act, which provided for the mediation and arbitration of disputes in the railroad industry which involved the operating brotherhoods, telegraphers and switchmen. Within a year after its adoption the switchmen, represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, invoked the law, which failed when its principles were repudiated by the leading railroad companies involved. The Act provided that when a controversy which could not be solved...
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
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Chessie System, inc.
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Chessie System Inc. was a railroad system headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio formed in 1971 out of the Baltimore and Ohio railway and the C and O railway. In 1980, it merged with Seaboard Coast Line Industries Inc., headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Renamed the CSX Corporation, it was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad website. From the description of Chessie System Rai...
Tennessee Central Railroad Company
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Monon (Railroad)
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The origin of the Monon Railroad dates back to 1847 with the founding of the New Albany and Salem Railroad in Borden, Ind. The railroad got its nickname "Monon" from a creek near Bradford, Ind. Alfter several mergers, expansions and reorganizations, the Monon became an independent line in 1946. In 1971 it merged with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and in 1985 L. & N.'s successor, Seaboard System, removed the last of the old Monon rails. From the description of Dispatch ...
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Company
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Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway
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Seaboard System Railroad
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The Seaboard System Railroad acquired the Georgia Railroad and Banking Co. in the 1980's. The Georgia Railroad owned or controlled Atlanta and West Point Railroad and Western Railroad of Alabama by the mid 1870's. From the description of Seaboard System Railroad Records, 1862-1931. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 36974846 ...
Jones, A. Crane
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After a railroad career spanning forty-five years, A. Crane Jones retired in 1989 as senior vice president of the CSX Corporation. Jones graduated from North Carolina State University in 1951 with a B.S. in civil engineering. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Following his retirement from CSX, Jones dedicated himself to organizations serving Jacksonville, Florida, and actively supported many N.C. State University endeavors. Jones died in April 2001 and was sur...
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company
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The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) began operation in 1879 after the 1878 consolidation with the Youngstown & Pittsburgh Railroad Company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., the P&LE line began as a single track railroad connecting Pittsburgh to Youngstown, Ohio. The railroad began its affiliation with the New York Central System in 1883 and, by 1890, was one of the principle rail routes in the eastern United States. Financed in part by the Harmony Society, a communal reli...
Port of Charleston.
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Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Railway Co.
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