Ohio River Subdivision

Railroad line between Wheeling and Huntington in the U.S. state of West Virginia.


4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

Legend
MP.0
 [1]
BN2.5
Wheeling
W&LE River Subdivision
B&O Viaduct Bridge
AES spur
4.6
Benwood
Kelly Asphalt spur
5.5
McMechen
Highline Warren distribution
8.5
11.9
Moundsville
Little Grave Creek
B&O line
to Cameron
Moundsville Bridge WV-2.svgOH-872.svg WV 2 / SR 872
84 Lumber spur
15.7
Williams plant yard
16.0
Chesnut siding
20.6
Foster siding
21.5
AEP Mitchell Power Plant.
21.5
Certain Teed LLC.
22.3
Foster siding
22.5
Fish Creek
26.1
Foster defect detector
26.3
Blue Racer Midstream LLC.
27.5
Westlake Chemical Inc.
29.3
Covestro industrial park
36.0
East Hannibal siding
New Martinsville BridgeWV-7.svgOH-536.svg WV 7 / SR 536
McKees Rocks Inc.
37.8
East Hannibal siding
Fishing Creek
Short Line Subdivision
38.0
CSX yard
LHOIST dock
42.8
47.3
51.9
54.2
54.5
Integrity LLC.
55.5
56.7
siding
64.2
Pleasant Power Station
Axens Global
SimEx Vinyl
74.76
79.2
81.0
Williamstown
89.0
CSX yard
Parkersburg Running Track
93.5
Sixth Street Bridge
Parkersburg Running Track
to Parkersburg
To High yard
Little Kanawha Industrial Track
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Train on the Ohio River Subdivision crossing Sandy Creek in Ravenswood, West Virginia in 2011
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The Ohio River Subdivision is a specific portion of a railroad system that runs along the Ohio River, 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.

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.


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