The Atlantic Coast Line railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad were once rivals in Florida.  The rivalry ended in the sixties when ACL and SAL merged to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.  The SCL lasted until the late seventies when SCL merged with the Louisville and Nashville railroad to form the Family Lines railroad.  Family Lines soon took the name Seaboard System railroad.  Seaboard System Lasted until the mid nineteen eighties when it merged with Chessie System to form C(hessie)S(eaboard)X Transportation. This eclectic history is still evident in the strata of paint visible on rolling stock still used in the Bone Valley.


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