The Big Sandy Subdivision is a

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line owned and operated by

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in the

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. The line runs from Catlettsburg south to Elkhorn City along a former

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line. CSX Huntington West Division Timetable
/ref> At its north end, the Big Sandy Subdivision junctions with the

Kanawha Subdivision The Kanawha Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of West Virginia and Kentucky. It was formerly part of the CSX Huntington East Division. It became part of the CSX Florence Division on June 20, 2016. The li ...

, which heads east to

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and

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and northwest to

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. The line continues from the south end as the

Kingsport Subdivision The Kingsport Subdivision (also KP Subdivision) is a 133.2-mile (214.4 km) railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. It was formerly part of the Huntington West Division. It beca ...

; this was the historic change between the C&O and

Clinchfield Railroad The Clinchfield Railroad was an operating and holding company for the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway . The line ran from the coalfields of Virginia and Elkhorn City, Kentucky, to the textile mills of South Carolina. The 35-mile se ...

. From north to south, the following lines branch off, most to dead ends: * Dawkins Subdivision * Middle Creek Subdivision *

E&BV Subdivision 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, Louis ...

(part of a continuous line to Winchester) * Coal Run Subdivision * SV&E Subdivision

References

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