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 genera ...

in southwestern Madison County in

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. It branches off a

CSX 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. ...

line near the city of

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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 The Central Indiana & Western Railroad is a short-line switching and terminal railroad in southwestern Madison County in Indiana. It branches off a CSX line near the city of Anderson and runs approximately seven miles west-southwest, terminatin ...

, which had been jointly owned by the

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and

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. The primary traffic is glass-making materials and

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shipped from South Anderson Yard to Lapel. Some grain traffic generated in Lapel is shipped to South Anderson.

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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