The Mohawk Subdivision is a
railroad
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line owned by
CSX Transportation
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in the U.S. state of
New York
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. The line runs from
Amsterdam, NY
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The City of Amsterdam is surrounded on the northern, eastern ...
west to
Oneida, NY
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along the former
New York Central Railroad
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main line. At its east end, east of downtown Amsterdam, the line becomes the
Selkirk Subdivision. With the creation of the CSX
Syracuse Terminal Subdivision
The Syracuse Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of New York. The line runs from Oneida, New York, at its east end where it continues from the Mohawk Subdivision to Solvay, New York, at its west end ...
, the west end is at
Oneida, New York
Oneida (, one, kanaˀalóhaleˀ) is a city in Madison County located west of Oneida Castle (in Oneida County) and east of Wampsville, New York, United States. The population was 11,390 at the 2010 census. The city, like both Oneida County an ...
.
Amtrak
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's ''
Empire Service'', ''
Lake Shore Limited
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'', and ''
Maple Leaf
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History of use in Canada
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'' operate over the entire Mohawk Subdivision.
As of January 24, 2011 at 0930 hours, the
Syracuse Terminal Subdivision
The Syracuse Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of New York. The line runs from Oneida, New York, at its east end where it continues from the Mohawk Subdivision to Solvay, New York, at its west end ...
went into service. It broke-up the Mohawk Subdivision. The
Syracuse Terminal Subdivision
The Syracuse Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of New York. The line runs from Oneida, New York, at its east end where it continues from the Mohawk Subdivision to Solvay, New York, at its west end ...
east end starts in
Oneida, New York
Oneida (, one, kanaˀalóhaleˀ) is a city in Madison County located west of Oneida Castle (in Oneida County) and east of Wampsville, New York, United States. The population was 11,390 at the 2010 census. The city, like both Oneida County an ...
, where the Mohawk Subdivision leaves off and the west end is in
Syracuse, New York, where the
Rochester Subdivision picks up.
History
In 1836, the
Utica and Schenectady Railroad
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opened a line from
Schenectady
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west via Amsterdam to
Utica. The
Syracuse and Utica Railroad opened in 1839, extending the line west to
Syracuse
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*Syracuse, M ...
. The portion of the Mohawk Subdivision west from downtown Syracuse was opened in 1853 by the
New York Central Railroad
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as part of a more direct route from
Syracuse
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*Syracuse, M ...
to
Rochester
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*Rochester, Kent
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.
[ , March 2005 Edition] The entire line became part of the
New York Central Railroad
The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mi ...
and
Conrail through leases, mergers and takeovers, and was assigned to
CSX Transportation
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. ...
in the 1999 breakup of Conrail.
See also
*
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, Lo ...
References
CSX Transportation lines
Rail infrastructure in New York (state)
New York Central Railroad lines
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