CSX recently revealed its latest heritage locomotive—a tribute to the Seaboard Air Line Railroad fresh out of the Class I railroad’s paint shop in Waycross, Ga. Running from 1900 to 1967, when it ...

STEEP GRADE. Seaboard System Railroad in Jacksonville said declining business has forced it to lay off 874 workers in several states. Coal hauling is down 9 percent since last year, a Seaboard ...

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As it sought to build a road in then-rural Pasco County, the state in 1936 reached an agreement with Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. In exchange for being able to build a road that crossed Seaboard’s ...

A March 1952 image of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad’s South Richmond station at Sixth and Hull streets. Before air travel grew, a number of railroads used “air line” in their names to emphasize the ...

One of the greatest celebrations in railroad history happened Jan. 7, 1927, when the long-awaited Orange Blossom Special first arrived in Fort Myers, headed to Naples. Historian Gregg Turner describes ...