FORM OF UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT FOR DEBT SECURITIES] CSX CORPORATION [TITLE OF SECURITIES] UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT [DATE]Underwriting Agreement • March 16th, 2004 • CSX Capital Trust 1 • Railroads, line-haul operating • New York
CSX CORPORATION, a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the parties named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “Representative”), $___ principal amount of its [title of securities] (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued under an indenture (the “Indenture”) dated as of August 1, 1990 between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, formerly The Chase Manhattan Bank, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented and amended by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 15, 1991, the Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 6, 1997, the Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 22, 1998, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 30, 2001 and the Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 27, 2003.
