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Seaboard World Airlines was an international all-cargo airline based in the United States. It was certificated as the first US transatlantic scheduled cargo airline in 1955 by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct federal agency that, from 1938 to 1978, tightly regulated almost all US commercial air transportation.
The Seaboard Air Line installed Centralized traffic control along the main line in the 1940s to improve efficiency. [7] The Seaboard Air Line would also be the first railroad to install a talking hot box detector (the predecessor to the modern defect detector). This first talking hot box detector was installed on the main line in Riceboro, Georgia.
In 1967, it merged with long-time rival Seaboard Air Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. Much of the original ACL network has been part of CSX Transportation since 1986. The Atlantic Coast Line served the Southeast, with a concentration of lines in Florida. Numerous named passenger trains were operated by the railroad for ...
In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) merged with the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL). In the wake of the merger, it was determined that the East Carolina Line from Charleston to Savannah was largely unnecessary as a through route in the combined network due to the existence of the parallel A Line (the ...
Postcard illustrating the allure of streamliner travel to Florida, along with the "citrus" paint scheme used on SAL's EMD diesel locomotives from 1939 to 1954.. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (reporting mark SAL), known colloquially as the Seaboard Railroad during its time, was an American railroad that existed from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast ...
Seaboard Corporation, an international agribusiness company Seaboard International , an international oilfield equipment engineering and manufacturing company, or its subsidiary Seaboard Wireline Seaboard World Airlines (1960 to 1980), an international cargo airline that also served as a U.S. military carrier
Track being laid near Sixth Street in Sarasota in 1902 The Sarasota Subdivision was one of the first major expansions of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad network in Florida. All of Seaboard's lines in Florida prior to this were part of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad network, which the Seaboard acquired in 1900.
The Seaboard Air Line fully absorbed the A&BAL in 1909. Once the Seaboard gained full control of the line, they designated the line from Atlanta to Birmingham as the Birmingham Subdivision. Track from Rockmart to Cartersville was designated as the Cartersville Subdivision. All tunnels on the line were eventually concrete-lined, starting in 1909.