Winston-Salem Soutbound

Company History: This 95 mile line was completed in 1910 from a connection with Norfolk & Western in Winston-Salem, North Carolina south to a connection with Atlantic Coast Line near the South Carolina border at Wadesboro. WSS was jointly owned by N&W and ACL and served as a bridge route between them. WSS had their own locomotives but N&W did the track maintenance and supervised operations while ACL did the sales as well as the accounting. WSS dieselized in 1957 with four GP9’s (two each purchased from parents N&W and ACL.) Two of the GP9s were painted in the black with yellow stripes used by ACL and subsequently by SCL but with a WSS logo on the side of the nose. The other two geeps were painted in a gray with maroon and yellow paint scheme that is unique to this line. In 1960, WSS acquired a controlling interest in the High Point Thomasville & Denton, a connecting 20 mile shortline. In 1967 WSS's diesel fleet was split between the parent roads and N&W and ACL (by then Seaboard Coast Line) began to provide the locomotives for regular operations. This is how the arrangement persists today under successors Norfolk Southern and CSX. The HPT&D was finally merged into WSS in 2010.

Successor/Parent History: CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States. The main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation, the railroad is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km). CSX operates one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and Canadian Pacific Railway. It also serves the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Together CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway have a duopoly over all east-west freight rail traffic east of the Mississippi River. As of October 1, 2014 CSX's total public stock value was slightly over $32 billion.

CSX Transportation was formed on November 1, 1980, by combining the railroads of the former Chessie System with Seaboard Coast Line Industries, and finally with the Seaboard System Railroad in 1986. The originator of the Seaboard System was the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which previously merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1967, and later with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, as well as several smaller subsidiaries such as the Clinchfield Railroad, Atlanta & West Point Railroad, Monon Railroad and the Georgia Railroad. The origin of the Chessie System was the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which had merged with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Western Maryland Railway.

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