Honey Creek Railroad was a

short-line railroad :''Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the American version of the popular board game Monopoly, named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.'' A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that opera ...

Rush County, Indiana Rush County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. In the 2010 United States Census, the population was 17,392. The county seat (and only city) is Rushville. History When the Indiana Territory was granted statehood (20 December 1816), there ...

. The line begins at its interchange with

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. ...

on the west side of Rushville and stretches north approximately six miles, ending at the town of Sexton. Honey Creek's operations began October 1, 1993 and consist almost exclusively of hauling grain. In 2017, CSX took over the entire line.

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Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Freight Railroads Operating in Indiana by Class (2000)Indiana Department of Transportation Railroad Map (2005)US Railroad Retirement Board Determination: Honey Creek Railroad
Indiana railroads Transportation in Rush County, Indiana Railway companies established in 1993 Spin-offs of Conrail {{RushCountyIN-geo-stub