Long Fork Subdivision

The Long Fork Subdivision was a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It split from the E&BV Subdivision at Martin and ran south to a dead end at Hi Hat. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20030120051906/http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Appalachian/LongFork.html CSX Timetables: Long Fork Subdivision] ] CSX filed to abandon all but the first 3 miles (5 km) from Martin to Salisbury in 2003; it had not seen traffic since ca. 1990.Tom Seay, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3943/is_200407/ai_n9418807 Kentucky Abandonments] , Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine, July/August 2004] [Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/c8e4fc4bfd543a5385256cc4005c69fc?OpenDocument Docket AB_55_627_X] , CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, February 11, 2003] However, due to complications regarding possible leasing by a coal company, the line was not abandoned until 2006. As of 2006, that lease is planned to take effect. [Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/55040ff86273b956852571770075b4f8?OpenDocument Docket AB_55_627_X] , CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, May 24, 2006]

The line was built in the 1910s or early 1920s by the Long Fork Railway, a Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road subsidiary. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway acquired it in 1933, and it passed through mergers to CSX. [Surface Transportation Board, [http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/c3e318b3874adcdd85257226002682b0/ccc5297a8e844cbf85256cca00747cdf?OpenDocument Docket AB_55_627_X] , CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, February 14, 2003]

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