Editing Seaboard System Railroad (section)

==History==
The Seaboard System's roots trace back to SCL Industries, a holding company created in 1968 that combined the Seaboard Coast Line's subsidiary railroads into one entity. In 1969, SCL was renamed [[Seaboard Coast Line Industries]], which was known as the '''Family Lines System''' from 1972-1982, to better compete with the [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway System]]. This entity adopted its own logo and colors, but each railroad maintained its own identity. Over time, this caused confusion among customers. In comparison to the neighboring [[Chessie System]], which had four railroads, the Family Lines had six railroads.<ref name="heritage">{{cite book |title=CSX |last=Solomon |first=Brian |year=2005 |publisher=MBI Publishing Company |isbn=0-7603-1796-8 |pages=63–67 }}</ref> In 1971 SCL bought out the remaining shares and made the Louisville & Nashville a subsidiary.

On November 1, 1980, Seaboard Coast Line Industries and Chessie System merged under the holding company [[CSX Corporation]]. Over the following seven years, the Chessie and Seaboard's various railroads were gradually merged into one. 

The first step came on December 29, 1982, when the [[Seaboard Coast Line]] and [[Louisville & Nashville]] (under the Family Lines entity) were merged to form the Seaboard System Railroad, Inc.<ref name="heritage" /><ref name="SCL1">{{cite book |title=Seaboard Coast Line & Family Lines |last=Griffin |first=William |year=2004 |publisher=TLC Publishing |isbn=0-9766201-0-3 |pages=124–136 }}</ref>

Considered as a "temporary railroad", the Seaboard System quickly began to merge the smaller railroads that were owned under the Family Lines System entity. This included the [[Georgia Railroad]] and the [[Clinchfield Railroad]] (1983), [[South Carolina Pacific Railway]] (April 30, 1984), Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Railway (July 1984), Gainesville Midland (1985), [[Atlanta & West Point Railroad]] (June 1986) and the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens (June 1986).  These mergers simplified equipment and management alongside the Chessie System railroads ([[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway|Chesapeake & Ohio]], [[Baltimore & Ohio]], [[Western Maryland Railway|Western Maryland]]). 

The Seaboard System renamed itself [[CSX Transportation]] on July 1, 1986. On April 30, 1987, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was merged into the Chesapeake & Ohio. Finally, on August 31, 1987, the Chesapeake & Ohio (still under the Chessie System entity for corporate reasons) was merged into CSX Transportation. All the major railroads under CSX Corporation were now one company.<ref name="Moodys" /> (The Western Railway of Alabama would remain an [[operating subsidiary]] until December 2002, when it was finally merged into CSX.<ref>[[Surface Transportation Board]], [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/9b71930019a820c7852574dc007766d1/b82fb02e339851e185256c95004ea8f9?OpenDocument CSX Transportation, Inc.--Corporate Family Merger Exemption--The Western Railway of Alabama], December 26, 2002</ref>)

[[Image:Family Lines logo.png|thumb|125px|The Family Lines logo included the six systems that were grouped under the name.]]