The Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad is a
short-line railroad
:''Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the American version of the popular board game Monopoly, named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.''
A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that oper ...
operating of
track over the
Chartiers Branch in southwest
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
. It also operated a small portion of the former
Conrail Panhandle Route between
Carnegie and Walkers Mill. This portion has not seen a train since 2014, and both bridges on the line have been fenced off. A section of rail was also cut from the line just west of Carnegie in 2015, rendering the line completely impassible. It is owned by the
Ohio Central Railroad System
The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming
Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio, the system operates of track divided among 10 subsidiary r ...
, which is a division of the rail holding company
Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
The P&OHC was formed after the purchase by Genesse & Wyoming of the former
Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad
The Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad was a Class III short-line railroad operating about 42 miles of track over the Chartiers Branch in southwest Pennsylvania. It was owned by RailTex, which bought the line from Conrail in 1996. In 2000, after ...
from
RailAmerica
RailAmerica, Inc., based in Jacksonville, Florida, was a holding company of a number of short-line railroads and regional railroads in the United States and Canada.
In 2007, RailAmerica was acquired by Fortress Investment Group. Before that, it ...
, Inc. in 2000. The line has track extending from its office in the
McKees Rocks north to
Neville Island and south to Arden in
South Strabane Township. Major commodities hauled include chemicals, minerals, plastics, and steel.
Interchanges
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McKees Rocks
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Pittsburgh, Allegheny & McKees Rocks Railroad (PAM)
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CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
*Duff Junction
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Norfolk Southern
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the company operates 19,420 route miles (31, ...
Roster (as of June 2014)
References
Western Pennsylvanian Railroads:Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad
External links
Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
Pennsylvania railroads
Switching and terminal railroads
Genesee & Wyoming
Companies operating former Pennsylvania Railroad lines
">Companies operating former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad lines
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