Pittsburgh Subdivision

This article is about the CSX line. For the Norfolk Southern Railway line, see Pittsburgh Line.

Pittsburgh Subdivision
A CSX freight train passes under the Smithfield Street Bridge in 2013.
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	CSX (from 1993) Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (until 1993)
Locale	Western Pennsylvania
Termini	Sinns, Liberty West Pittsburg
Service
Type	Freight rail and passenger rail
System	CSX
Operator(s)	CSX
History
Opened	1879 (northwest of Pittsburgh) 1883 (southeast of Pittsburgh)
Technical
Line length	60 mi (97 km)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Route map MP New Castle Subdivision Beaver River 40.75 NS Youngstown Line 40.4 Wampum 36.8 CSX Koppel Secondary 32.8 College (PA) defect detector NS Fort Wayne Line 29.5 Beaver Falls 26.0 Beaver Bridgewater NS Cleveland Line 25.2 Ohio River 23.1 CSX Ohio River Secondary Monaca 23.0 Blacks Run USG Industrial Siding 20.4 Aliquippa defect detector Ambridge–Aliquippa Bridge 18.4 South Heights Crescent Township 14.1 Briggston defect detector Sewickley Bridge 11.4 Kendall Montour Jct. Montour Railroad Coraopolis Bridge 9.8 Coraopolis 8.2 Groveton I-79 P&OC Neville Industrial Track 5.7 Neville Fleming Park Bridge CSX Pittsburg Intermodal Terminal 3.75 Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad 3.7 McKees Rocks Industrial Railroad 3.6 McKees Rocks 3.4 Chartiers Creek 2.8 NS Mon Line US 19 Fort Pitt Bridge P&WV West End Branch Fort Pitt Bridge P&WV Wabash Bridge Smithfield Street Bridge PLE0.7 Pittsburgh Holdout PRT Pittsburgh Light Rail over Panhandle Bridge Liberty Bridge (Pittsburgh) South Tenth Street Bridge PLY0.2 Pittsburgh defect detector Whitehall Branch Industrial siding Birmingham Bridge Monongahela Connecting Railroad 1.8 J&L Tunnel MCR Hot Metal Bridge 4.4 Lucas PA 885 AVR W&P Subdivision via Glenwood Bridge NS Mon Line 6.5 Homestead Union Railroad 7.8 Pinkerton's Landing Bridge over Monongahela River P&W Subdivision 9.1 Braddock Turtle Creek 11.0 URR Port Perry Bridge 11.1 NS Port Perry Branch US Steel 13.0 Demmler Yard 14.3 North Riverton Yard US Steel P&LE McKeesport Bridge over Youghiogheny River 15.1 Mon Subdivision Jerome Street Bridge 15.1 McKeesport 16.8 Sinns defect detector 17.27 Sinns Keystone Subdivision

The Pittsburgh Subdivision is an American railroad line that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Notable features

The line runs from McKeesport (PLY 15.1) northwest through Pittsburgh to West Pittsburg (near New Castle) along a former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad line. Its east end is at Sinns (PLY 16.9), across the Youghiogheny River from McKeesport at Liberty, at the west end of the Keystone Subdivision. It junctions with the Mon Subdivision at McKeesport, and the P&W Subdivision in Rankin; at its west end it becomes the New Castle Terminal Subdivision.

Amtrak's Capitol Limited uses the line southeast of Rankin.

History

The line northwest of Pittsburgh opened in 1879 as part of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The rest of the line, southeast from Pittsburgh, was opened in 1883 by the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad. The latter company was leased by the P&LE.

In 1934, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began operating through trains via trackage rights over the P&LE between McKeesport (slightly north of the current beginning of the Pittsburgh Subdivision until the bridge at Sinns opened in 1968) and New Castle, leaving the P&W Subdivision for local trains only. Eventually the P&LE, which had been jointly owned by CSX and Conrail, was merged into CSX.

See also

• Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
• List of CSX Transportation lines