CSX Adds Seaboard System to Heritage Fleet

CSX ES44AH No. 1982, in Seaboard System Railroad colors, is the third in a series of heritage locomotives created by employees at the company’s Waycross Locomotive Shop in Georgia “as a way of celebrating CSX’s rich history.”

CSX previously unveiled units commemorating the B&O Railroad and the Chessie System. Each locomotive has been repainted with a “hybrid design” that features modern CSX colors on the front cab portion of the unit transitioning to the heritage colors and logos, and a number that corresponds to the predecessor’s founding. In No. 1982’s case, the Seaboard System logo’s red, yellow and white stand out on the carbody’s gray.

Created in 1982 with the merger of the Seaboard Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville railroads, the Seaboard System “was the first step under the CSX Corporation holding company to combine all of the company’s heritage railroads into one,” CSX noted.

“My granddaddy worked here when it was Seaboard Coast Line,” says CSX Carman Painter Al Varnadore in a video. “So having the opportunity to work on this unit is like being a part of something that he was a part of.”