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The Cumberland Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the Cumberland, Maryland area. The line centers around the Cumberland rail yard and is a junction with three other subdivisions.
The line was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) in the 1850s as part of its original main line, known then as the "West End." To the east it connects with the Cumberland Subdivision leading to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. To the west it joins the Keystone Subdivision heading towards Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To the southwest it joins the Mountain Subdivision leading to Grafton, West Virginia.[1]
The Cumberland rail yard includes a large classification yard and an engine shop.[2]
Queen City Hotel in 1970, shortly before its demolition.
The B&O built a large passenger station in Cumberland, the Queen City Hotel, in 1871, shortly after completion of a rail line to Pittsburgh. Passenger traffic on the line declined in the mid-20th century, and the station was demolished in 1972.[3] Today the smaller Amtrak depot is located on the line, in the downtown area west of the yard.
During the 1970s ownership of the subdivision passed from the B&O to the Chessie System. Chessie was merged into CSX in the early 1980s.
See also
References
- ^ CSX Transportation, Baltimore, MD. "Cumberland Terminal Subdivision." Northern Region, Baltimore Division, Timetable No. 4. Effective 2005-01-01.
- ^ mtnsub.org. "Cumberland Terminal." Railfanning the B&O Around Cumberland, MD. Accessed 2010-08-14.
- ^ Newell, Dianne (1975). The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
- Dilts, James D. (1996). The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804726290. http://books.google.com/books?id=JjrCWPwvHzIC.
External links
- CSX Cumberland Terminal - Facebook page with photos
- CSX Railroad Yard in Cumberland, MD - Photos
Categories:- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lines
- CSX Transportation lines
- Rail infrastructure in Maryland
- Transportation in Cumberland, MD-WV-PA
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