The Central Indiana & Western Railroad is a short-line

switching and terminal railroad A switching and terminal railroad is a freight railroad company whose primary purpose is to perform local switching services or to own and operate a terminal facility. Switching is a type of operation done within the limits of a yard. It gener ...

in southwestern Madison County in

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. It branches off a

CSX CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Railroad classes, 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 trac ...

line near the city of Anderson and runs approximately seven miles west-southwest, terminating at

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near the western border of the county. About three miles of operation are on CSX. The line was formerly part of the Central Indiana Railway, which had been jointly owned by the

New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected New York metropolitan area, gr ...

and

Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark PRR), legal name as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy," was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its ...

. The primary traffic is glass-making materials and shipped from South Anderson Yard to Lapel. In addition the CEIW built a track in Anderson at Recycled Polymer Solutions to handle tank cars for trans-loading. They also receive railcars with plastic for Recycled Polymer Solutions

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External links

Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Freight Railroads Operating in Indiana by Class: 2000
{{DEFAULTSORT:Central Indiana Western Railroad Switching and terminal railroads Indiana railroads Transportation in Madison County, Indiana Spin-offs of Conrail