The Family Lines was a marketing scheme, the railroads were under one name but not officially merged together and still ran independently. They did merge in 1983 with the creation of Seaboard System.
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The railroads that Frank is talking about would be Seaboard, Louisville & Nashville, Clinchfield, Western Railway of Alabama,and Georgia Railroad. Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio had become Chessie System, but were not merged to the above lines yet. Seaboard was it's self a merger of Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line.
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