Shenandoah Subdivision

Shenandoah Subdivision

The Shenandoah Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of West Virginia and Virginia. The line runs from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia southwest to Strasburg, Virginia [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20030120063043/www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Baltimore/Shenandoah.html CSX Timetables: Shenandoah Subdivision] ] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road line. Its northeast end is at a junction with the Cumberland Subdivision; at its southwest end, it intersects the Norfolk Southern Railway's B-Line.

History

The piece from Harpers Ferry to Winchester opened in 1836 as the Winchester and Potomac Railroad.Fact|date=February 2007 The Winchester and Strasburg Railroad opened the rest of the line in 1870.Fact|date=February 2007 The line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.

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