List of Seaboard Air Line Railroad precursors

Below is a list of railroads that were bought, leased, or in other ways had their track come under ownership or control by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad or one of its predecessors.

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad on July 1, 1967, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

Predecessor lines

Map of CSX's "A" and "S" lines, inherited from predecessors ACL and SAL, respectively.

The Seaboard main line from Richmond to Tampa, heart of its 2600-mile system in 1900, (today mostly CSX's "S" Line), had been built by the following companies:

• Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad, Richmond, Virginia to Norlina, North Carolina (the immediate predecessor of the SAL)
• Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, Norlina to Raleigh, North Carolina
• Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Railroad, Raleigh to Hamlet, North Carolina
• Palmetto Railroad, Hamlet to Cheraw, South Carolina
• Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad, Cheraw to Camden, South Carolina
• Predecessors of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad:
  • South Bound Railroad, Camden to Savannah, Georgia
  • Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Northern Division, Savannah to Georgia/Florida state line
  • Florida Northern Railroad, state line to Yulee, Florida
  • Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad, Yulee to Jacksonville, Florida
  • Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, Jacksonville to Baldwin, Florida
  • Florida Railroad, Yulee to Baldwin to Waldo, Florida
  • Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad Tampa Division, Waldo to Tampa, Florida

Acquired lines

In the first decades of the 20th century, Seaboard expanded its holdings by acquiring the following lines, some of which were created by the Seaboard to construct new lines it wished to have.

Acquired by purchase:

• Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, 1903
• Tallahassee, Perry and Southeastern Railway, 1909
• Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway, 1909
• Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway, 1909
• Florida West Shore Railway, 1909
• Plant City, Arcadia and Gulf Railroad, 1909
• Tampa Terminal Railroad, 1922
• Jacksonville, Gainesville and Gulf Railroad, 1927

Acquired by lease:

• Kissimmee River Railway, 1917
• Brooksville and Inverness Railway, 1925
• Tampa Northern Railroad, 1925
• Charlotte Harbor and Gulf Coast Railway, 1925
• Seaboard-All Florida Railway, 1925
• Naples, Seaboard and Gulf Railway, 1925
• Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad, 1927
• Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad, 1928
• Northern Railway of Florida, 1928

Seaboard Air Line Railway

See also

• List of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad precursors

External links

• Seaboard System family tree (PDF)