Anons,
Family Y Railroad digger here,
Current status is an unbroken chain of connections from Cornelius Vanderbilt (the only family Q mentions/implies as cult)
from CV to modern class 1 railroads.
Union Pacific = Mack McLarty (board member) and Cliton (McLarty in business with clinton through AmTran, BC's first CoS)
Canadian National = Bill Gates
BNSF = Warren Buffett
CSX? = Who is the power players behind CSX? historically? currently? Greenbrier and WV Governor?
Jim Justice
Richest man in the state. "Moving Mountains" comms from POTUS the past month? Related?
Former Vanderbilt's NYCentral RR line runs through Point Pleasant. Something about that town spooks. Who owns the rr line now?
Kanawha River Railroad
Watco Companies
Owned by Andell Holding
Interchanges with CSX most often.
Short track railroads notorious for their trafficking?
G&W another former vanderbilt/whitney owned operation.
The above at the very least raises almonds. Does it help us find the power players behind CSX?
Historically CSX was dervied from the Chessie System railroad formerly the B&O.
Gilded age power house, who controlled?
Baltimore power family? Pol/business power interests in Baltimore?
Possibly connected?
CSX requires constant congressional bailout?
Any Baltimore connected pol/business interest historically connected to B&O?
Other have of CSX merger was the former Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.
Not as old as B&O, but certainly interesting trackage.
"Juice Train" = Tropicana.
Follow Tropicana brand to find their influence? Connected to SCL?
The last major class 1 railroad in the US is Norfolk Southern,
who is the major influence here?