Long Fork Subdivision

{{Short description|Railway line in Kentucky}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

The Long Fork Subdivision was a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It split from the E&BV Subdivision at Martin and ran south to a dead end at Hi Hat.{{Cite web|url=http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/LF-Long_Fork_Sub|title=LF-Long Fork Sub - the RadioReference Wiki}} http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/CSX/CSX%20ETTs/CSX%20Huntington%20Div%20West%20ETT%20%231%201-1-2005.pdf CSX Huntington West Division Timetable [https://web.archive.org/web/20030120051906/http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Appalachian/LongFork.html CSX Timetables: Long Fork Subdivision] CSX filed to abandon all but the first {{convert|3|mi}} from Martin to Salisbury in 2003; it had not seen traffic since {{circa|1990}}.Tom Seay, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3943/is_200407/ai_n9418807 Kentucky Abandonments], Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine, July/August 2004Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/c8e4fc4bfd543a5385256cc4005c69fc?OpenDocument Docket AB_55_627_X] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517035711/http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/c8e4fc4bfd543a5385256cc4005c69fc?OpenDocument |date=2011-05-17 }}, CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, February 11, 2003 However, due to complications regarding possible leasing by a coal company, the line was not abandoned until 2006. {{As of|2006}}, that lease is planned to take effect.Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/55040ff86273b956852571770075b4f8?OpenDocument Docket AB_55_627_X] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517035729/http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/55040ff86273b956852571770075b4f8?OpenDocument |date=2011-05-17 }}, CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, May 24, 2006

The line was built in the 1910s or early 1920s by the Long Fork Railway, a Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road subsidiary. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway acquired it in 1933, and it passed through mergers to CSX.Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/ccc5297a8e844cbf85256cca00747cdf?OpenDocument Docket AB_55_627_X] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321115615/http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/ccc5297a8e844cbf85256cca00747cdf?OpenDocument |date=2007-03-21 }}, CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, February 14, 2003