JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The 19th heritage locomotive in the CSX fleet is No. 1851, a tribute to predecessor railroad Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis.
CEO Joe Hinrichs unveiled the locomotive today in a post on LinkedIn, as has been customary.
“The NC&StL railroad was founded in 1845 and was acquired in a hostile takeover by the Louisville & Nashville (L&N) railroad in 1880,” Hinrichs wrote. “The NC&StL played an important role – for both sides – in the Civil War. The original rail line between Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta is still an important part of our CSX network today. Another great job by our team in Waycross, Ga. Enjoy!”
The 1851 joins others in the railroad’s growing heritage fleet, which includes locomotives honoring the Seaboard Air Line; Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad; Georgia Railroad; Pittsburgh & Lake Erie; Family Lines; Pere Marquette; Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; Baltimore & Ohio; Chessie System; Seaboard System; Conrail; Chesapeake & Ohio; Louisville & Nashville; Atlantic Coast Line; New York Central; Monon; Western Maryland; and Seaboard Coast Line.
Norfolk Southern did what David Schwengel suggested. TRAINS covered the gathering of the heritage fleet at the NC Transportation Museum on July 4, 2012.
Another fine heritage paint job CSX!! Keep them coming.
“The original rail line between Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta is still an important part of our CSX network today.” The Memphis – Jackson segment of the NC&STL line between Memphis and Nashville was removed as the parallel L&N line to Louisville was connected by a branch from Jackson for continued access to Nashville from Memphis.
Like I have said, we’re getting lost in the weeds. NC&StL? Really? To me it’s L&N. I’ve seen plenty of CSX trains rolling through Tennessee’s Rutherford County. I don’t think NC&StL, I think Louisville and Nashville.
If we’re pulling in every CSX predecessor that lasted into the era of diesel paint schemes, we have three major NYNH&H Railroad liveries (traditional orange, traditional green, and McGinnis red/white/black) and two major B&M corporation liveries (scarlet, and blue). I’m not sure, doesn’t CSX have some former Maine Central trackage?
Oh and BTW let’s hope no Penn Central heritage unit. Ugh.
Looks very nice but might be even better if painted in heritage colors all around like Metra does. Heritage colors on the front of the locomotive along with the rest with Metra name, reporting marks and road number clearly visible.
In any case, some heritage diesels are nice to have around. Thanks CSX.
Classy looking unit. Great job CSX.
I thought the engine number was the founding date of the original railroad. In this case it appears to that the engine number should be #1845?
They did that with some like Chessie and Conrail but not for all of them.
First rate====Yellow Stripe!!!!! Thank you CSX