Thomas Subdivision

The Thomas Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and West Virginia. The line runs from Rawlings, Maryland, to Bayard, West Virginia, for a total of 44.2 miles (71.1 km). At its east end the line continues west from the Mountain Subdivision and at its west end the line comes to an end.^[2][3]

Thomas Subdivision
Overview
Status	Active
Owner	CSX Transportation
Locale	West Virginia, Maryland
Termini	Keyser Bayard
Service
Type	Freight rail
System	CSX Transportation
Operator(s)	CSX Transportation
Technical
Line length	44.2 mi
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map Legend MP.0 [1] Mountain Subdivision to Cumberland WM Thomas Sub. 19.8 Mountain Subdivision North Branch Potomac River Keyser Jct. Keyser 21.3 McCoole Verso Facility 23.7 Biggs 25.1 Poland Westernport sidings 26.5 Westernport 26.75 Georges Creek Subdivision Georges Creek 27.5 Luke Verso Luke Paper Mill 27.9 State line MD WV 28.0 WV Central Jct. Bloomington Yard 28.73 Bloomington Viaduct over North Branch Potomac River 29.5 WV MD 29.9 Hampshire 38.3 Chaffee Railroad 40.0 MD WV 44.7 Blaine/Kitzmiller 45.6 Potomac Manor 46.3 Harrison 52.9 WV MD 58.7 Gorman 61.3 MD WV 62.0 Bayard Bayard Yard Stony River Subdivision Thomas This diagram: view talk edit

The line was built by the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway (WVC&P) in the 1880s, and originally ran between Cumberland, Maryland and Elkins, West Virginia. The WVC&P merged with the Western Maryland Railway (WM) in 1905. The WM abandoned portions of the line between the 1930s and 1970s.^[4] The WM was merged into the Chessie System in 1973, and the latter merged into CSX Transportation in 1980.^[5]

See also

• List of CSX Transportation lines

References

1. https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/TM-Thomas_Sub
2. "TM-Thomas Sub". The RadioReference Wiki. San Antonio, TX: RadioReference.com LLC. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
3. "Huntington East Division Timetable" (PDF). Jacksonville, FL: CSX Transportation. 2005 – via Multimodalways Project (Dover, OH).
4. Salamon, Stephen J.; Hopkins, William E. (1991). The Western Maryland Railway in the Diesel Era. Silver Spring, MD: Old Line Graphics. pp. 92ff. ISBN 1-879314-07-X.
5. "CSX merger family tree". Trains. 2006-06-02. Archived from the original on 2021-04-10.