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8/14/2023
A locomotive commemorating the history of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway was named the fifth in the CSX Heritage Series, CSX announced last week.
The series celebrates the lines that came together to form the modern railroad.
Numbered CSX 1869 in honor of the year the C&O was formed in Virginia from several smaller railroads, the locomotive has a custom paint design that includes today’s CSX colors on the front of the engine and transitions to a paint scheme inspired by 1960s-era C&O locomotives on the rear two-thirds.
The C&O Railway was a major line among North American freight and passenger railroads for nearly a century before becoming part of the Chessie System in 1972 and eventually merging into the modern CSX. In 1970, the C&O included more than 5,000 route miles of track stretching from Newport News, Virginia, to Chicago and the Great Lakes, CSX officials said.
A video about the C&O locomotive can be viewed here.