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No. 2 Secondary (or Number 2 Secondary, formerly No. 2 Secondary Track [12] or Number 2 Secondary Track) South Fork Secondary (formerly South Fork Secondary Track [12]) Weirton Secondary (formerly Weirton Secondary Track [12]) Altoona Terminal: Employee timetable name for Altoona Works. Ashtabula Terminal: Conway Terminal
Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The South Carolina Canal & Rail Road was the SOU's earliest predecessor line. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. [18]
The Harrisburg Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from Philadelphia (HP 5.2) west to Harrisburg (HP 112.9). The Harrisburg Line was formed the day Conrail began operations, April 1, 1976, from two former Reading Company lines, the original namesake main ...
Track #2 parallels Track #1 to the east running from adjacent to 0.5 miles (0.80 km) apart, and is the northbound track originally owned by Michigan Central Railroad. [1] Track #2 is paralleled directly to its east by the CN/GTW Shore Line Subdivision from the start of the line at Gibraltar Road to Vienna Junction just north of the Michigan ...
This connection track was later double tracked to eliminate bottlenecking traffic. Ownership of the line was passed on to Norfolk Southern after the Conrail split between CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern in 1999. Norfolk Southern continues to use the line as part of its Keystone Division. [3]
Norfolk Southern Railway: Operator(s) Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (Buffalo-Machias, New York) Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (Machias-Driftwood, Pennsylvania) Norfolk Southern Railway (Driftwood-Rockville) History; Opened: 1854: Technical; Number of tracks: 1-2: Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
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The Lurgan Branch is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (reporting mark NS) in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Maryland.The line is part of the NS Harrisburg Division and runs from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania southwest to Hagerstown, Maryland along former Reading Company (reporting mark RDG) and Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR) lines. [1]