Ohio River Subdivision

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| type = Freight rail

| system = CSX Transportation

| status = Active

| locale = West Virginia

| start = Huntington

| end = Wheeling

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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{{cite web| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030120062702/http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Allegheny/OhioRiver.html| archivedate=2003-01-20| url=http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Allegheny/OhioRiver.html| website=CSX Timetables (Trainweb.org)| title=Ohio River Secondary Subdivision}} along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line.{{cite web| url=http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/OR-Ohio_River_Sub| title=OR-Ohio River Sub| website=The RadioReference Wiki| date=29 December 2017}}{{user-generated inline|date=June 2021}}{{cite web| url=http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/CSX/CSX%20ETTs/CSX%20Huntington%20Div%20East%20ETT%20%231%201-1-2005.pdf| title=CSX Huntington East Division Timetable| website=MultiModalWays.org}}

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.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1852%20Mar%2005.pdf| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060316170346/http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1852%20Mar%2005.pdf| archivedate=March 16, 2006| title=PRR Chronology, 1852| date=March 2005}} The entire line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.

References

Category:CSX Transportation lines

Category:Rail infrastructure in West Virginia

Category:Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lines