Holding company for several Eastern US Class I railroads
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Chessie System
Overview
Headquarters
Cleveland, Ohio
Reporting mark
B&O C&O WM
Locale
Delaware Illinois Indiana Kentucky Maryland Michigan New Jersey New York Ohio Ontario Pennsylvania Virginia Washington, D. C. West Virginia
Dates of operation
February 26th, 1973–June 30th, 1986
Successor
CSX Transportation
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Chessie System, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Western Maryland Railway (WM), and Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (B&OCT). Trains operated under the Chessie name from 1973 to 1987.
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the Chessie System was the creation of Cyrus S. Eaton and his protégé Hays T. Watkins, then president and chief executive officer of the C&O. A chief source of revenue for the Chessie System was coal mined in West Virginia. Another was the transport of auto parts and finished motor vehicles.
The name "Chessie System" had been a popular nickname for the C&O since the 1930s, cemented with an advertising campaign that featured a sleeping kitten named Chessie. The 1970s holding company developed the "Ches-C" emblem: a kitten outline imposed on a circle, creating a rough letter C. This emblem was emblazoned on the front of all Chessie System locomotives, and also served as the "C" in "Chessie System" on the locomotive's flanks, and on other rolling stock.
ChessieSystem, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Western Maryland...
Nashville and Clinchfield—as the "Family Lines System". In 1980, SCLI merged with the ChessieSystem to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two...
1980 as part of the ChessieSystem and Seaboard Coast Line Industries merger. The various railroads of the former ChessieSystem and Seaboard Coast Line...
Eaton, it became part of the ChessieSystem, along with the Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland Railway. The ChessieSystem was later combined with the...
Bay, US ChessieSystem, a former holding company of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) Chessie (mascot), a kitten mascot of the C&O Chessie (train)...
ChessieSystem, Inc. to form CSX Corporation (Chessie-Seaboard Multiplied), and in 1983 the Family Lines units were combined as the Seaboard System Railroad...
It operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the ChessieSystem; its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation. The railroad...
a small passenger train operation. The WM became a property of the ChessieSystem holding company in 1973, although it continued independent operations...
was owned for much of its history by that company and its successors, ChessieSystem and CSX Corporation. Following years of heavy losses, CSX had the hotel...
Freedom Train. On March 6, 1979, while being stored one winter in a ChessieSystem roundhouse in Silver Grove, KY, 2101 was severely damaged in a fire...
increased their separation from other systems, simplifying maintenance for the prime mover and the electrical system. One former SD50 engineer praised the...
Railroad entirely. Then in 1986, the Seaboard System merged with the C&O and B&O (known as the ChessieSystem) and the combined company became CSX Transportation...
by the ChessieSystem, Western Development, Inland Steel, and other landowners, would be purchased by a joint venture owned by the ChessieSystem and Western...
railroads merged to form CSX Transportation. The Seaboard System Railroad merged with ChessieSystem which consisted of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and...
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), which became a component of the ChessieSystem in 1972, then was merged into CSX in 1987. The line is now part of the...
Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O), to create "The ChessieSystem Railroad." The ChessieSystem merged with the Seaboard System Railroad to create CSX in 1987, with...
form the Seaboard System. On July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System's name was changed to CSX Transportation. Subsequently, the ChessieSystem was merged into...
examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads. The ChessieSystem received the majority of them as C&O 1500–1524 (25 units), while the...
railroads to group into the ChessieSystem, which would eventually be completely merged into the new CSX transportation system. The Cumberland-Frostburg...
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