Erie West Subdivision

4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

Legend
MP.0
[1]
Cleveland Terminal Subdivision
I-90.svg I-90
168.3
Wickliffe
166.8
CP 167
165.0
Eastlake
Eastlake power plant
163.7
Willoughby
Chagrin River
162.1
CP 162
159.4
Mentor
Lincoln Electric facility
to NS Lake Erie District
Greenbridge siding
155.8
CP 155
Lubrizol industrial track
Grand River Yard
B&O Fairport Branch
to Warren
154.0
Morton Salt industrial track
153.2
Painesville
Grand River
?
148.7
CP 148
147.5
Perry
145.2
Madison
142.5
Madison
NS Lake Erie District
Cowles Creek
134.8
CP 134
Indian Creek
130.3
CP 130
CSX Ashtabula Yard
128.0
NS Youngstown Line
Industrial running track
Fields Brook
124.6
CP 124
INEOS Pigments spur
114.5
113.1
CP 113
112.4
State line
111.0
Pittsburgh & Conneaut
Dock Co.
Raccoon Creek
108.6
Duck Run
Elk Creek
Lake City
Godfrey Run
97.5
CP 97
Walnut Creek
Asbury
89.7
CP 89
National Lime & Stone Co.
industrial track
NS Lake Erie District
88.7
87.4
CP 87
86.9
Erie
Amtrak
86.1
86.0
Ash St.
85.6
CP 85
84.9
Ore dock spur
84.5
Hammermill scale
84.2
CSX Erie Yard
NS Lake Erie District
East Erie Commercial Railroad
83.2
CP 83
East Erie Commercial Railroad
75.1
73.3
CP 73
73.0
North East station
Lakeshore Railway Museum
68.4
State line
68.2
65.3
58.2
CP 58
Jamestown, Westfield,
and Northwestern Trolley
57.5
56.2
CP 56
50.0
CP 49
PRR Chautauqua Branch
49.41
47.2
CP 47
42.6
42.5
CP 42
40.3
40.1
CP 39
CSX Dunkirk Yard
37.0
CP 37
32.8
siding
31.4
30.8
CP 31
28.9
28.3
27.0
23.0
CP 23
21.4
NS Lake Erie District
Big Sister Creek
19.0
15.6
CP 15
Eighteen Mile Creek
10.2
PRR West Seneca Branch
LV Lehigh and Lake Erie Branch
8.1
Smoke Creek
5.4
CP 5
4.2
Seneca Yard
4.19
Ridge Rd.
CSX Ohio St. Yard
2.2
CP 2
Track #3
2.1
Ohio St.
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The Erie West Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The line runs from Derby, New York southwest along the shore of Lake Erie to Cleveland, Ohio,[2] along the former New York Central Railroad main line.

At its east end (east of downtown Buffalo), the Erie West Subdivision becomes the Buffalo Terminal Subdivision; at its west end (east of downtown Cleveland), it becomes the Cleveland Terminal Subdivision. This subdivision is also known as the Great Lakes Service Lane. Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited uses the Erie West Subdivision.

History

The line was built by the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad and opened in 1852.[3] Through mergers, leases, and takeovers, it became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, New York Central Railroad, and Conrail. When Conrail was broken up in 1999, the main line east of Cleveland, including the Erie West Subdivision, was assigned to CSX. In 2007 in Painesville, Ohio on this line, a major freight train derailment occurred resulting in the spill of ethanol and a large fire.[4]

In 2010, its eastern terminus was extended to Buffalo when the Lake Shore Subdivision was transferred from the Albany Division to the Great Lakes Division and absorbed. [5]

See also

  • CSX Bridge (Painesville, Ohio)

References

  1. ^ https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/EW-Erie_West_Sub
  2. ^ "CSX Timetables: Erie West Subdivision". Archived from the original on January 20, 2003.
  3. ^ "PRR Chronology, 1852,83.5 KB" (PDF). March 2005.
  4. ^ "Derailment of CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train Q380-09" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  5. ^ http://www.botecomm.com/bote/rail/csx_dispatchers.html

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