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The Mountain Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and West Virginia. The line runs from Cumberland, Maryland , west to Grafton, West Virginia , [ 1 ] along the original Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) main line.
Former B&O Metropolitan Subdivision: Washington, D.C. Weverton, Maryland: Used by MARC Brunswick Line trains. Formerly B&O Metropolitan Branch Mon Subdivision: Brownsville, Pennsylvania: McKeesport, Pennsylvania: Mon is short for Monongahela Mountain Subdivision: Cumberland, Maryland: Grafton, West Virginia: Former B&O main line New Castle ...
The Bridgeport Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line runs from Grafton west to Clarksburg [1] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road line. At its east end, the Bridgeport Subdivision becomes the Mountain Subdivision; its west end is at the Short Line Subdivision.
The majority of the Fairmont Subdivision, from Grafton to Fairmont, was opened in 1852 as part of the B&O's main line. [4] A short piece in Fairmont opened around 1890 as part of the Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburgh Railroad. [5] The entire line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.
Built in 1836–1837, the B&O's first crossing over the Potomac was an 830-foot (250 m) covered wood truss. [2] It was the only rail crossing of the Potomac River until after the American Civil War. The single-track bridge, composed of six river spans plus a span over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II.
Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, during strike in 1877 1876 B&O map. Ohio River Railroad from 1901; Pittsburgh Junction Railroad from 1902; Pittsburgh and Western Railroad from 1902. This was originally a narrow gauge system which was standard gauged from 1883 to 1911. It formed the main B&O line west from Pittsburgh.
The Cumberland Subdivision was opened in 1842 as part of the B&O's main line. [4] In 1914 the Baltimore and Ohio RR opened the Magnolia Cutoff, a more direct route through mountain ridges, running 14 miles (23 km) between Hansrote, West Virginia and Paw Paw, West Virginia.
The Capital Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The line runs from near Baltimore, Maryland, southwest to Washington, D.C., along the former Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) Washington Branch. [1]