Philadelphia Subdivision

Coordinates: 39°54′10.2″N 75°8′24.1″W / 39.902833°N 75.140028°W / 39.902833; -75.140028

Philadelphia Subdivision
Overview
Type Freight rail
System CSX Transportation
Status Operational
Locale Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
Termini Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Operation
Owner CSX Transportation
Operator(s) CSX Transportation
Technical
Number of tracks 1-2
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Route map
Legend
 MP (Milepost)
0.0
Park Junction
Harrisburg Line, Trenton Subdivision

 Eakins Oval
I-676 / US 30
SEPTA Regional Rail
 PA 3 (JFK Blvd.)
 PA 3 (Market Street)
 Chestnut Street
 Walnut Street
 South Street
Harrisburg Subdivision
I-76
3.3 Harrisburg Subdivision
B&O Railroad Bridge
over Schuylkill River
Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Wilmington/Newark Line
 Cobbs Creek
 Darby Creek

 US 13
SEPTA Route 102
 PA 420
 I-476
 PA 320
 PA 352
 Chester
 Chester Creek
 US 322
 PA 452

 PA 491
Pennsylvania
Delaware
border
 DE 92
 DE 3
 I‑95
 DE 202
 I‑95 / US 202
 Brandywine Creek
 DE 52
 Wilmington
 DE 48
28.5 East Penn Railway
DE 2
East Penn Railway
East Penn Railway
 DE 100
 DE 141
30.7 Wilmington & Western RR

 DE 62
 Red Clay Creek
 DE 7
 White Clay Creek
 DE 2 / DE 72

 DE 896

 DE 273
Delaware
Maryland
border

 MD 277
 MD 213
 MD 545
 I-95
 MD 272
 MD 222
 Perryville
57.7 Port Deposit Branch
CSX Susquehanna River Bridge
over Susquehanna River
 MD 155
 Havre de Grace
 MD 22

 MD 132
 Aberdeen
 MD 7
 MD 543
 MD 24
 MD 152
 MD 43
 US 40
 I-695
 I-95
90.3 Baltimore Terminal Sub.
The CSX Susquehanna River Bridge, built between 1907 and 1910 near Perryville, Maryland.

The Philadelphia Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. The line runs from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania southwest to Baltimore, Maryland along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) line.[1]

At its north end, near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Subdivision becomes the Trenton Subdivision; it meets the south end of the Harrisburg Subdivision a bit to the south. The south end of the Philadelphia Subdivision is near Bay View Yard, where the Baltimore Terminal Subdivision begins.

History

The line was built by the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad in Pennsylvania and as a branch of the B&O Railroad in Delaware and Maryland. The line began full operation in 1886.[2] North of Philadelphia, the B&O used the lines of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway to reach the New York City area. Passenger train service on the Philadelphia Subdivision was led by the Royal Blue, its flagship train. The B&O ceased operation of passenger trains on the subdivision in 1958, and since then the line has been used only for freight trains.

In the 1970s and 80s the line passed through leases and mergers to CSX.

Communities such as Aberdeen, Maryland are making an effort to preserve the former Baltimore and Ohio railroad stations.

A former B&O Railroad station in Aberdeen, Maryland.

See also

References

  1. ↑ CSX Transportation. "Philadelphia Subdivision." Timetable effective 2000-04-01.
  2. ↑ H.V. and H.W. Poor Co. "Poor's Manual of Railroads of the United States: 1891." p. 49. Accessed 2010-05-12.
  • Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., Royal Blue Line. Sykesville, Md.: Greenberg Publishing, 1990 (ISBN 0-89778-155-4).
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