Fairmont Subdivision

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Fairmont Subdivision
Overview
StatusActive
OwnerCSX Transportation
LocaleWest Virginia
Termini
Service
TypeFreight rail
SystemCSX Transportation
Operator(s)CSX Transportation
Technical
Number of tracks1-2
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

MP.0
306.3
Catawba Junction
B&O line
to Point Marion
ND Paper Fairmont
Unknown Junction
B&O Roundhouse (Razed)
B&O line
to Mannington
Federal
Junction
303.4
WD Tower
302.1
300.9
Gaston Junction
300.6
284.2
CY Tower
Dyna Mix Industrial siding
Industrial siding
280.2
D Tower

The Fairmont Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line runs from Grafton northwest to Rivesville[1] along the old Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road main line and a former branch of it.[2][unreliable source?][3]

At its southeast end, the Fairmont Subdivision junctions with the Mountain Subdivision near its west end, where it becomes the Bridgeport Subdivision. The northwest end is at a junction with the Norfolk Southern Railway's Loveridge Secondary, along which CSX has trackage rights north to the Mon Subdivision near Brownsville, Pennsylvania.

History[edit]

The majority of the Fairmont Subdivision, from Grafton to Fairmont, was opened in 1852 as part of the B&O's main line.[4] A short piece in Fairmont opened around 1890 as part of the Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburgh Railroad.[5] The entire line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "CSX Timetables: Fairmont Subdivision". Archived from the original on November 26, 2002.
  2. ^ "FT-Fairmont Sub". RadioReference.com.
  3. ^ "CSX Huntington East Timetable" (PDF). MultimodalWays.
  4. ^ "PRR Chronology, 1852" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. March 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-03-16.
  5. ^ Ross, Phil (1994). "The Scotts Run Coalfield from the Great War to the Great Depression: A Study in Overdevelopment". West Virginia History. Vol. 53. West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. pp. 21–42.