The Hoosier Subdivision was a

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

line owned by

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 U.S. state of

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

. The line ran from

New Albany, Indiana New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River, opposite Louisville, Kentucky. The population was 37,841 as of the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Floyd County. It is bounded by I-265 t ...

, to Bedford, Indiana, for a total of 72.2 miles. At its south end it continued north from Norfolk Southern and at its north end it came to an end; it formerly connected here with the Soo Line (ex-

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) and former Canadian Pacific branch from

Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...

. The Indiana Rail Road operated on the Hoosier Subdivision from the Milwaukee Road junction in Bedford to Louisville from 2006 until 2009. The Hoosier Subdivision was considered out of service by CSX but was rail banked in case of future revival. The last train ran between New Albany and Mitchell in 2009 but a small section in New Albany remained in service until 2016 to serve an industry until it closed. On December 19, 2017, CSX Transportation filed with the

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to abandon a 62.3-mile majority of the Hoosier Subdivision from Mile Post 00Q 314.0 in

, to milepost 00Q 251.7 in Bedford, Indiana. In 2023, CSX has removed the track from Mitchell to New Albany to eventually become a rail trail called Monon South Greenway.

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