Ohio River Subdivision

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Ohio River Subdivision
Point Pleasant Kanawha River Rail Bridge 2022.jpg
Ohio River Subdivision crossing the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 2022
Overview
StatusActive
Owner CSX Transportation
Locale West Virginia
Termini
Service
Type Freight rail
SystemCSX Transportation
Operator(s)CSX Transportation
Technical
Number of tracks1
Track gauge 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

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B&O Viaduct Bridge
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Kelly Asphalt spur
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Highline Warren distribution
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Little Grave Creek
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B&O line
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84 Lumber spur
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Williams plant yard
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Chesnut siding
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Foster siding
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AEP Mitchell Power Plant.
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Certain Teed LLC.
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Blue Racer Midstream LLC.
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Westlake Chemical Inc.
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Covestro industrial park
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East Hannibal siding
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McKees Rocks Inc.
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East Hannibal siding
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Brooklyn Jct.
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Friendly defect detector
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Integrity LLC.
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siding
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Pleasant Power Station
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Axens Global
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SimEx Vinyl
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Williamstown
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CSX yard
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Little Kanawha Industrial Track
Train on the Ohio River Subdivision crossing Sandy Creek in Ravenswood, West Virginia in 2011 CSX Crosses Sandy Creek (6414840973).jpg
Train on the Ohio River Subdivision crossing Sandy Creek in Ravenswood, West Virginia in 2011

The Ohio River Subdivision is a term used to describe a specific portion or division of a railway or railroad system that runs along the Ohio River. It is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line runs from Wheeling southwesterly along the east (left) shore of the Ohio River to Huntington [2] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line. [3] [4]

The Ohio River Subdivision intersects the Short Line Subdivision at New Martinsville, the Marietta Subdivision at Parkersburg, and the Kanawha Subdivision at Huntington. It also intersects the Kanawha River Railroad at Point Pleasant, where CSX has trackage rights across the Ohio on the Point Pleasant Rail Bridge to the short Pomeroy Subdivision in the state of Ohio.

History

The line south of Moundsville was built by the Ohio River Railroad in the 1880s.[ citation needed ] Though the Ohio River Railroad built a line from Moundsville north to Wheeling, the parallel tracks of the original B&O main line, opened in 1852, were used there. [5] The entire line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.

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References

  1. https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/OR-Ohio_River_Sub
  2. "Ohio River Secondary Subdivision". CSX Timetables (Trainweb.org). Archived from the original on January 20, 2003.
  3. "OR-Ohio River Sub". The RadioReference Wiki. December 29, 2017.[ user-generated source? ]
  4. "CSX Huntington East Division Timetable" (PDF). MultiModalWays.org.
  5. "PRR Chronology, 1852" (PDF). March 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 16, 2006.