The Seaboard System Railroad was a railroad subsidiary of the CSX Corporation, created as an intermediate step in the mergers that would form CSX Transportation. Its roots were in the Family Lines System, a marketing name adopted by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL, a 1967 consolidation of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroads) and its subsidiaries in 1972. Under this relationship, equipment of the SCL, Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N), Georgia Railroad, Clinchfield Railroad, and West Point Route (Atlanta and West Point Railroad and Western Railway of Alabama) was repainted gray with yellow and red stripes, but the six companies continued to operate separately.  The CSX Corporation was formed on November 1, 1980, from a merger of two holding companies: Seaboard Coast Line Industries and Chessie System. The first steps in consolidating railroad subsidiaries took place in 1982: the SCL absorbed the Georgia Railroad on November 4, and on December 29, 1982, effective January 1, 1983, the SCL absorbed the L&N and Clinchfield, and was renamed Seaboard System Railroad. The Family Lines colors were kept, but in a slightly different design, in which the stripes were curved in a stylized "SS".