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Bellwood Subdivision
The Bellwood Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Virginia, United States. The line runs along CSX's S Line from Richmond, Virginia, to Bellwood, Virginia, for a total of . At its north end the line continues south from the Richmond Terminal Subdivision and at its south end the line continues south as the North End Subdivision. History The line was once the northernmost segment of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Main Line (Seaboard Air Line Railroad), main line (which is now CSX's S Line). Seaboard affiliate Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad originally built the line between 1898 and 1900. Seaboard designated the segment of the main line from Richmond to Raleigh as the Richmond Subdivision. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1967 with the merged company becoming the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The Seaboard Coast Line abandoned the S Line past Centralia (where it merges with the A Line) to Norli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and rail freight transport, freight transport globally, thanks to its Energy efficiency in transport, energy efficiency and potentially high-speed rail, high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower friction, frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by Diesel locomotive, diesel or Electric locomotive, electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital intensity, capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chessie System
Chessie System, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Western Maryland Railway (WM), and Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (B&OCT). Trains operated under the Chessie name from 1973 to 1987. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the Chessie System was the creation of Cyrus S. Eaton and his protégé Hays T. Watkins, then president and chief executive officer of the C&O. A chief source of revenue for the Chessie System was coal mined in West Virginia. Another was the transport of auto parts and finished motor vehicles. "Chessie" had been a popular nickname for the C&O since the 1930s, cemented with an advertising campaign that featured a sleeping kitten named Chessie. The 1970s holding company developed the "Ches-C" emblem: a kitten outline imposed on a circle, creating a rough letter C. This emblem was emblazoned on the front of all Chessie System locomotives, and also served as the "C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSX Transportation Lines
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies that controlled railroads operating in the Eastern United States. Initially only a holding company, the subsidiaries that made up CSX Corporation completed merging in 1987. CSX Transportation formally came into existence in 1986, as the successor of Seaboard System Railroad. In 1999, CSX Transportation acquired about half of Conrail in a joint purchase with competitor Norfolk Southern Railway. In 2022, it acquired Pan Am Railways, extending its reach into northern New England. Norfolk Southern remains CSX's chief compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of CSX Transportation Lines
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United States acquired from the 1999 breakup of Conrail. The lines are split into two regions – Northern and Southern, further split into divisions (five in the Northern region and four in the Southern), and finally into subdivisions, most of which consist of a single main line with short branches. Active lines Former lines See also * List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines References CSX Transportation Timetables {{DEFAULTSORT:CSX Transportation lines CSX CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Railroad classes, Class I freight railroad company operating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSX Bellwood Subdivision James River Bridge
The CSX Bellwood Subdivision James River Bridge is a plate girder bridge that carries the Bellwood Subdivision over the James River in Richmond, Virginia. The bridge was built by the Colonial Construction Company using steel from the Pennsylvania Steel Company for the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad from 1899 to mid April 1900. This bridge was the last link in the long north to south railroad line that became the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The bridge begins just south of the Main Street Station and constitutes the middle part of the Triple Crossing, going under the Rivanna Subdivision and over the Richmond District (Norfolk Southern) Richmond District may refer to: *Richmond District, San Francisco The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, on the West Side (San Francisco), West Side of the city. Developed initially in the late 19th ce ... prior to crossing the James River. References Railroad bridges in Virginia B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Crossing
The Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is one of two places in North America where three railroad lines cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being the BNSF operated Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City. Santa Fe Junction became a triple crossing after the Argentine Connection was completed in 2004. At the lowest (ground) level, Norfolk Southern Railway operates a line to West Point, Virginia on its Richmond District line. The line was first built by the Richmond and Danville Railroad between 1886 and 1895 and split off from its main line on the north side of the railroad's James River bridge and ran to the eastern end of the peninsula created by the Kanawha Canal. This line was paralleled by an older trestle built by the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad in the early 1880s. The trestle and tracks ran from the R&A yards at Eighth and Canal Streets, along Byrd Street, and ended at the terminus of the peninsula. Between 1895 and 1905, the R&D extended its line acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Street Station (Richmond)
Broad Street Station (originally Union Station) was a union station, union railroad station in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, United States, across Broad Street (Richmond, Virginia), Broad Street from the Fan district. The building is now used by the Science Museum of Virginia. History It was built as the southern terminal train station, terminus for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) in 1917 in the Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style by the architect John Russell Pope. The station also served the trains of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) and Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). Eventually, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL), which had formerly used Richmond's other union station, Main Street Station (Richmond), Main Street Station, switched to Broad Street Station. At Amtrak's inception in 1971, it was served by the ''Champion (train), Champion'', ''Silver Meteor'', and ''Silver Star (Amtrak train), Silver Star'' (all inheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Main Street Station
Richmond Main Street Station, officially the Main Street Station and Trainshed, is a historic railroad station and office building in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1901, and is served by Amtrak. It is also an intermodal station with Richmond's city transit bus services, which are performed by Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC). The station is colloquially known by residents as The Clock Tower. It was listed to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and in 1976 was made a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Main Street Station serves as a secondary train station for Richmond providing limited Amtrak service directly to downtown Richmond. Several Amtrak trains serving the Richmond metropolitan area only stop at the area's primary rail station, Staples Mill Road which is located five miles to the north in Henrico County. The station is served by three daily ''Northeast Regional'' trains, two of which originate or terminate at Newport News. The other train orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norlina Subdivision
The Norlina Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of North Carolina. The line currently runs from Norlina, North Carolina, to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a total of 51.2 miles. At its north end the line comes to an end and at its south end the line continues north from the Aberdeen Subdivision (North Carolina), Aberdeen Subdivision. While the current line dates back to 1840, it has been known as the Norlina Subdivision since 1967. Under CSX's predecessor, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the Norlina Subdivision continued north to Collier Yard near Petersburg, Virginia. History The first segment of the Norlina Subdivision was built in 1840 by the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, which in its entirety ran from Raleigh north to Norlina (known then as Ridgeway Junction) and east to Weldon, North Carolina, Weldon. The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1900. The same year, the SAL finished a line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSX Corporation
CSX Corporation is an American holding company focused on rail transportation and real estate in North America, among other industries. The company was established in 1980 as part of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries merger. The various railroads of the former Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries that are now owned by CSX Corporation were eventually merged into a single line in 1986 and it became known as CSX Transportation. CSX Corporation currently has a number of subsidiaries beyond CSX Transportation. Previously based in Richmond, Virginia after the merger, the corporation moved its headquarters to Jacksonville, Florida, in 2003. CSX is a ''Fortune'' 500 company. Subsidiaries and divisions CSX Transportation CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad operating in the eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles (34,000 km) of track. As of December 30, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norlina, North Carolina
Norlina ( ) is a town in Warren County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,118 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 920 people, 537 households, and 266 families residing in the town. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 1,107 people, 482 households, and 300 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 534 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 57.36% White, 41.46% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.72% from other races, and 0.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.36% of the population. There were 482 households, out of which 28.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.2% were married couples living together, 21.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.6% wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
