Indianapolis Subdivision

{{Short description|Railway line in Ohio and Indiana}}

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The Indianapolis Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Ohio and Indiana. The line runs from Hamilton, Ohio, (north of Cincinnati) west to Indianapolis, Indiana,[https://web.archive.org/web/20030120072811/http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Louisville/Indianapolis.html CSX Timetables: Indianapolis Subdivision (Louisville Division)][https://web.archive.org/web/20030120072811/http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Louisville/Indianapolis.html CSX Timetables: Indianapolis Subdivision (Great Lakes Division)] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line.

The east end of the Indianapolis Subdivision is at the end of a branch of the Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision, near the south end of the Toledo Subdivision. Its west end is just east of downtown Indianapolis at the Indianapolis Terminal Subdivision.{{Cite web|url=http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/HL-Indianapolis_Sub|title=HL-Indianapolis Sub - the RadioReference Wiki}} http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/CSX/CSX%20ETTs/CSX%20Louisville%20Div%20ETT%20%233%201-1-2005.pdf CSX Louisville Division Timetable

History

The line was built by the Junction Railroad, opened from 1859 to 1869.compiled by Jim Blount, [http://www.lanepl.org/Blount/jbplaces/documents/A823B877FF07F8AECCC57EC13A8B8725B9BD8797.html An Index to Butler County Place Names: Junction Railroad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221120159/http://www.lanepl.org/Blount/jbplaces/documents/A823B877FF07F8AECCC57EC13A8B8725B9BD8797.html |date=2007-02-21 }}, as of June 25, 2005 Through takeovers, leases, and mergers, it became part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and later CSX.

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