Philadelphia Subdivision

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Philadelphia Subdivision

Legend 0.0 Park Junction, Lehigh Line (Conrail), Trenton Subdivision Eakins Oval Interstate 676 SEPTA Regional Rail Market Street Chestnut Street Walnut Street South Street Harrisburg Subdivision Interstate 76 3.3 Harrisburg Subdivision Schuylkill River R2 Cobbs Creek Darby Creek United States Route 13 Pennsylvania Route 420 Interstate 476 Pennsylvania Route 230 Chester Chester Creek United States Route 322 Pennsylvania Route 452 Pennsylvania Route 491 Pennsylvania-Delaware Delaware Route 92 Delaware Route 3 Interstate 95 Delaware Route 202 Interstate 95 Brandywine Creek Delaware Route 52 Wilmington Delaware Route 48 28.5 East Penn Railway Delaware Route 2 East Penn Railway East Penn Railway Delaware Route 100 Delaware Route 141 30.7 Wilmington and Western Railroad Delaware Route 62 Red Clay Creek Delaware Route 7 Delaware Park Racetrack White Clay Creek University of Delaware Delaware Route 896 Delaware Route 273 Delaware-Maryland Maryland Route 277 Maryland Route 213 Maryland Route 545 Interstate 95 Maryland Route 272 Maryland Route 222 Perryville Perryville Railroad Bridge 57.7 Norfolk Southern Railway Susquehanna River Maryland Route 155 Havre de Grace Maryland Route 22 Maryland Route 132 Maryland Route 7 Maryland Route 543 Maryland Route 24 Maryland Route 152 Gunpowder Falls State Park Maryland Route 43 United States Route 40 Interstate 695 Interstate 95 90.3 Baltimore Terminal 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^[1] 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.

[edit] 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.^{[citation needed]} The line passed through leases and mergers into CSX.

[edit] References

1. ^ CSX Timetables: Philadelphia Subdivision