And from the ‘Said It, Should Regret It’ file …

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UPDATE: Monday, Nov 20, 2023 · 5:54:22 PM +00:00 · Alan Kandel

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UPDATE: Monday, Nov 20, 2023 · 5:31:34 PM +00:00 · Alan Kandel

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UPDATE: Monday, Nov 20, 2023 · 5:26:50 PM +00:00 · Alan Kandel

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… there is this:

“You will never see ‘CSX’ on the side of a box car. We do, indeed, intend to continue the identity of Chessie and its components, C&O [Chesapeake & Ohio], B&O [Baltimore & Ohio], and Western Maryland. Family Lines will continue to preserve the L&N, the SCL (the Louisville & Nashville and Seaboard Coast Line, respectively), and the Clinchfield….”*

Now hear this: “Once it’s in print, it’s forever!” Dude.

*Written response letter to the Tulsa Tribune editor by then Chessie System Public Relations Dir. M. B. Dolinger to Jenkin Jones’ Nov. 29, 1980 Tribune editorial and cited in Jul. 1986 Trains “Arrivals & Departures”, p. 11).