Piedmont & Northern

Company History: The P&N was the result of the 1914 merger of The Piedmont Traction Company and the Greenville Spartanburg & Anderson Railway. Both predecessors were built by a pair of Utility moguls, most notably James B. Duke. P&N ran two disconnected lines, one in South Carolina and the other in North Carolina. The former ran from Anderson through Greenville to Spartanburg with a branch to Greenwood. The North Carolina operation ran from Gastonia to Charlotte but a long branch was built from this line to a Duke power plant in Terrell in 1965. The P&N was electrified with 1500 volt DC with the expectation of running steam road size freights along with interurban cars. The 1950s brought big changes to P&N. The first diesel arrived in 1950 and in 1951 the South Carolina operation was fully dieselized and passenger service was ended. In North Carolina, the wire started to come down in 1954 with the exception of a short segment in Charlotte that lasted another four years. For a number of years, P&N shared a management team with the Durham & Southern which was also owned by Duke. In 1969, Duke sold the P&N to Seaboard Coast Line who merged the company that year.

Successor/Parent History: The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (reporting mark SCL) is a former Class I railroad company operating in the Southeastern United States beginning in 1967. Its passenger operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971. Eventually the railroad was merged with its affiliate lines to create the Seaboard System in 1983.

At the end of 1970 SCL operated 9230 miles of railroad, not including A&WP-Clinchfield-CN&L-GM-Georgia-L&N-Carrollton; that year it reported 31293 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 512 million passenger-miles.

The Seaboard Coast Line emerged on July 1, 1967, following the merger of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The combined system totaled 9,809 miles (15,786 km), the eighth largest in the United States at the time. The railroad had $1.2 billion in assets and revenue with a 54% market share of rail service in the Southeast, facing competition primarily from the Southern.

On November 1, 1980, CSX Corporation was created as a holding company for the Family Lines and Chessie System Railroad. In 1983 CSX combined the Family Lines System units as the Seaboard System Railroad and later became CSX Transportation when the former Chessie units merged with the Seaboard in December 1986. Effective January 1, 1983, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad became Seaboard System Railroad after a merger with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Clinchfield Railroad. For some years prior to this, the SCL and L&N had been under the common ownership of a holding company, Seaboard Coast Line Industries (SCLI), the company's railroad subsidiaries being collectively known as the Family Lines System which consisted of the L&N, SCL, Clinchfield and West Point Routes. During this time, the railroads adopted the same paint schemes but continued to operate as separate railroads.

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