EXHIBIT 24

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each of the undersigned officers
and directors of CSX CORPORATION, a Virginia Corporation, which is to file with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C., a Form 10-K (Annual
Report), hereby constitutes and appoints Carolyn T. Sizemore and Ellen M.
Fitzsimmons his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for him and in his
name, place and stead to sign said Form 10-K, and any and all amendments
thereto, with power where appropriate to affix the corporate seal of CSX
Corporation thereto and to attest said seal, and to file said Form 10-K, and any
and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and
each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and all acts and
things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to
all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands this 9th
day of March 2004.

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/s/ ELIZABETH E. BAILEY                         /s/ CHARLES E. RICE
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Elizabeth E. Bailey                             Charles E. Rice

/s/ ROBERT L. BURRUS, JR                        /s/ WILLIAM C. RICHARDSON
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Robert L. Burrus, Jr.                           William C. Richardson

/s/ BRUCE C. GOTTWALD                           /s/ FRANK S. ROYAL
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Bruce C. Gottwald                               Frank S. Royal

/s/ EDWARD J. KELLY, III                        /s/ DONALD J. SHEPARD
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Edward J. Kelly, III                            Donald J. Shepard

/s/ ROBERT D. KUNISCH                           /s/ MICHAEL J. WARD
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Robert D. Kunisch                               Michael J. Ward

/s/ SOUTHWOOD J. MORCOTT                        /s/ OSCAR MUNOZ
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Southwood J. Morcott                            Oscar Munoz

/s/ DAVID M. RATCLIFFE
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David M. Ratcliffe
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