Berkshire Subdivision

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Berkshire Subdivision
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Looking south from Route 8 in Hinsdale, Massachusetts
Overview
StatusOperational
Owner CSX Transportation
Locale Berkshires
Termini
Stations2 [1]
Service
System Amtrak
CSX Transportation
Services Berkshire Flyer , Lake Shore Limited
History
Opened1839 (1839)
Technical
Line length99.9 miles (160.8 km) [1]
Number of tracks1-2 [1]
CharacterAt-grade except one tunnel [1]
Track gauge 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

Contents

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91.9 mi
147.9 km
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96.1 mi
154.7 km
Athol Industrial Track
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98.4 mi
158.4 km
Springfield
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98.6 mi
158.7 km
Connecticut River Line
New Haven–Springfield Line
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98.8 mi
159 km
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100.0 mi
160.9 km
West Springfield Yard
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107.9 mi
173.6 km
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148.5 mi
239 km
Pittsfield Yard
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150.5 mi
242.2 km
Pittsfield
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150.6 mi
242.4 km
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162.0 mi
260.7 km
MA
NY
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164.8 mi
265.2 km
State Line Tunnel
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177.2 mi
285.2 km
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187.4 mi
301.6 km
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191.8 mi
308.7 km
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The Berkshire Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and New York. The line runs from near Springfield, Massachusetts west to Schodack, New York, (near Albany) [1] along a former New York Central Railroad line. Its east end is in Wilbraham, east of Springfield, at the west end of the Boston Subdivision. Its west end is just east of the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge, at a junction with the Castleton Subdivision and Schodack Subdivision. Along the way, the line junctions Amtrak's Post Road Branch (over which CSX has trackage rights) in Schodack. [2] [3]

Amtrak operates trains over the Berkshire Subdivision east of the junction with the Post Road Branch. The seasonal Berkshire Flyer runs as far as Pittsfield, while the Boston section of the long-distance Lake Shore Limited follows the line through to its eastern terminus.

History

The Western Railroad opened east of Springfield in 1839, and from Springfield west to the New York state line in 1841. [4] In 1842, the portion of the Boston-Albany line in New York was completed by the Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad. [5] The Hudson River Connecting Railroad opened the piece of the current Berkshire Subdivision west of the Post Road Branch junction in 1924. [6] The line became part of the Boston and Albany Railroad, New York Central, and Conrail through leases, mergers, and takeovers, and was assigned to CSX in the 1999 breakup of Conrail.

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "CSX Timetables: Berkshire Subdivision". Archived from the original on November 26, 2002.
  2. "CSX Berkshire Sub". The RadioReference Wiki.
  3. "CSX Albany Division Timetable" (PDF).
  4. Appleton, Edward (1871). "History of the Railways of Massachusetts". Archived from the original on August 3, 2009.
  5. "PRR Chronology, 1842" (PDF). (70.6  KiB), May 2004 Edition
  6. "PRR Chronology, 1924" (PDF). (83.2  KiB), July 2004 Edition