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
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Florida, Peninsular and Gulf Railroad
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