The Long Fork Subdivision was a

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line owned and operated 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

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...

. It split from the

E&BV Subdivision CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, L ...

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and ran south to a dead end at Hi Hat. CSX filed to abandon all but the first from Martin to

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in 2003; it had not seen traffic since .Tom Seay
Kentucky Abandonments
Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine, July/August 2004 However, due to complications regarding possible leasing by a coal company, the line was not abandoned until 2006. , that lease is planned to take effect. The line was built in the 1910s or early 1920s by the Long Fork Railway, a

Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

subsidiary. The

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond t ...

acquired it in 1933, and it passed through mergers to CSX.

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Docket AB_55_627_X
, CSX Transportation, Inc.--abandonment exemption--in Floyd County, KY, February 14, 2003

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