Philadelphia Subdivision

Philadelphia Subdivision

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 [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20030120071430/www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Baltimore/Philadelphia.html CSX Timetables: Philadelphia Subdivision] ] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line.

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. It crosses the Susquehanna River on the Perryville Railroad Bridge.

History

The line was built by the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad in Pennsylvania and as a branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Delaware and Maryland; it opened in the mid-1880s.Fact|date=February 2007 The line passed through leases and mergers into CSX.

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