S&C Subdivision
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Other name(s) | Somerset and Cambria Subdivision | |||||||||||||||||||
Status | Operational | |||||||||||||||||||
Owner | CSX | |||||||||||||||||||
Locale | Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||||
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Type | Freight rail | |||||||||||||||||||
System | CSX | |||||||||||||||||||
Operator(s) | CSX | |||||||||||||||||||
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Number of tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge | |||||||||||||||||||
Signalling | BFC | |||||||||||||||||||
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The S&C Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from the Keystone Subdivision at Rockwood north to Johnstown[2][3][4] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, once the Somerset and Cambria Railroad.
History
[edit]The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad connected Somerset to what was then the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad as it passed through Rockwood (then called Mineral Point)[5] in the early 1870s.
The Johnstown & Somerset Railroad followed the Stonycreek valley north-by-northeast from Somerset through Stoystown to Johnstown around 1880. The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad and the Johnstown & Somerset Railroad were combined and reorganized as the Somerset and Cambria Branch Railroad.[5]
Through leases and mergers, the line became part of the B&O and then CSX.
References
[edit]- ^ https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/SC-S_and_C_Sub
- ^ CSX Timetables: S&C Subdivision
- ^ http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/SC-S_and_C_Sub [unreliable source?]
- ^ CSX Baltimore Division Timetable
- ^ a b History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co. 1884. p. 180.