The Overpeck Cutoff is a

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 ...

line is currently owned by

CSX Transportation 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 lead ...

in the

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. The line runs from Overpeck Junction in

Overpeck, Ohio Overpeck (other names: Overpeck Station, Overpecks, Overpecks Station) is an unincorporated community in central St. Clair Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office with the ZIP code 45055. It lies between New Miami ...

to HM Junction in

Woodsdale, Ohio Woodsdale is an unincorporated community in Madison and St. Clair Townships in central Butler County, Ohio, United States, about three miles northeast of Hamilton. It was established in 1867 by the Beckett Paper Company and was formerly a sto ...

. This forms a wye diverging off the

Toledo Subdivision The Toledo Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Ohio. The line runs from Hamilton, Ohio, Hamilton (north of Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati) north to Perrysburg, OH, Perrysburg (near Toledo, O ...

at Overpeck Junction and meeting the Middletown Subdivision at HM Junction.

History

Initial sections

The Former B&O branch from New Miami, Ohio to

Middletown, Ohio Middletown is a city in Butler County, Ohio, Butler and Warren County, Ohio, Warren counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 50,987 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area in sou ...

was built for the express purpose of serving the massive steel mill belonging to the American Rolling Mills (ARMCO), now owned by

AK Steel AK Steel Holdings Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in West Chester Township, Ohio. The company, whose name was derived from the initials of Armco, its predecessor company, and Kawasaki Steel Corporation, was acquir ...

still uses this line daily as its Middletown Subdivision of the Louisville Division.

Consolidation

The B&O itself merged with the C&O in 1987, which itself became part of CSX Transportation in that year. CSX Transportation
"Our Evolution and History."
Interactive timeline. Accessed 2012-12-02.

References

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