Ohio River Subdivision

Ohio River Subdivision
Ohio River Subdivision crossing the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 2022
Overview
Status	Active
Owner	CSX Transportation
Locale	West Virginia
Termini	Huntington Wheeling
Service
Type	Freight rail
System	CSX Transportation
Operator(s)	CSX Transportation
Technical
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map MP.0 B&O Ohio River Branch BN2.5 Wheeling W&LE River Subdivision B&O Viaduct Bridge AES spur 4.6 Benwood Kelly Asphalt spur 5.5 McMechen Highline Warren distribution 8.5 Glen Dale 11.9 Moundsville Little Grave Creek Moundsville Rail-Trail B&O Fairmont Branch to Fairmont Moundsville Bridge WV 2 / SR 872 84 Lumber spur 15.7 Williams plant yard 16.0 Chesnut siding 20.6 Foster siding 21.5 AEP Mitchell Power Plant. 21.5 Certain Teed LLC. 22.3 Foster siding 22.5 Fish Creek 26.1 Foster defect detector 26.3 Blue Racer Midstream LLC. 27.5 Westlake Chemical Inc. 29.3 Covestro industrial park 36.0 East Hannibal siding New Martinsville Bridge WV 7 / SR 536 McKees Rocks Inc. New Martinsville 37.8 East Hannibal siding Fishing Creek Short Line Subdivision 38.0 Brooklyn Jct. CSX yard LHOIST dock 42.8 Paden City 47.3 Sistersville 51.9 Friendly 54.2 Friendly defect detector 54.5 Long Reach Momentive plant Integrity LLC. 55.5 Friendly 56.7 siding Grape Island 64.2 St. Marys Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge SR 807 Belmont Eureka Pleasant Power Station Axens Global SimEx Vinyl 74.76 Waverly 79.2 Williamstown defect detector Williamstown Bridge I-77 81.0 Williamstown Boaz 89.0 Vienna CSX yard Parkersburg Running Track 93.5 Sixth Street Bridge Parkersburg Running Track to Parkersburg Parkersburg–Belpre Bridge To High yard Little Kanawha River Little Kanawha Industrial Track

Train on the Ohio River Subdivision crossing Sandy Creek in Ravenswood, West Virginia in 2011

The Ohio River Subdivision is a specific portion of a railroad system that runs along the Ohio River, owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line runs from Wheeling southwesterly along the east (left) shore of the Ohio River to Huntington along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line.

The Ohio River Subdivision intersects the Short Line Subdivision at New Martinsville, the Marietta Subdivision at Parkersburg, and the Kanawha Subdivision at Huntington. It also intersects the Kanawha River Railroad at Point Pleasant, where CSX has trackage rights across the Ohio on the Point Pleasant Rail Bridge to the short Pomeroy Subdivision in the state of Ohio.

History

The line south of Moundsville was built by the Ohio River Railroad in the 1880s. Though the Ohio River Railroad built a line from Moundsville north to Wheeling, the parallel tracks of the original B&O main line, opened in 1852, were used there. The entire line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.