Seaboard Air Line Railroad (abandoned)

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This line was once part of SAL’s mainline between Richmond, VA and points south (Birmingham, AL, Savannah, GA, and Florida). On July 1, 1967, SAL merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), forming the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

Following the merger, SAL’s main line from Richmond south became known as the S-Line and the roughly parallel former ACL main line became known as the A-Line. In the early 1970s, the SCL abandoned the portion of the S-Line from Centralia, VA (just north of Chester, where the line intersected with the A-Line) to Petersburg at the southern-most section of this polygon, where the SCL constructed the Burgess connection between the S-Line and the A-Line, at the southern end of Collier Yard, operated today by CSX. Northbound trains from Raleigh on the S-Line would veer to the east on this new connection and go through Collier Yard on its way to points north. CSX abandoned the Burgess connection as well as the S-Line between Petersburg and Norlina, N.C. in 1987.

See following links:
www.railsinvirginia.com/abandoned/sal/seaboard.html
www.railsinvirginia.com/abandoned/sal/seaboard_action.h...
aclsal.org/
webpages.charter.net/suzuya/Seaboard.html
www.american-rails.com/seaboard-air-line.html
greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00203...
wikimapia.org/19130976/CSX-Collier-Yard