New York Central Lines LLC was a
limited liability company
A limited liability company (LLC for short) is the US-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of ...
that owned
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 ...
lines in the
United States
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that are owned and operated by
CSX Transportation. The company was formed in 1998 to own
Conrail lines assigned to CSX in the split of Conrail between CSX and the
Norfolk Southern Railway; operations were switched over on June 1, 1999. The company was named after the old
New York Central Railroad
The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mid ...
, whose old main line became a line of the new company. In November 2003, the
Surface Transportation Board approved a plan allowing CSX to fully absorb New York Central Lines,
which was done on August 27, 2004.
List of lines
See also
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List of CSX Transportation lines
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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Pennsylvania Lines LLC
References
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Surface Transportation BoardDocket FD_33388_0 CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation, Inc., Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company—control and operating leases/agreements—Conrail Inc. and Consolidated Rail Corporation, July 23, 1998
Conrail System Map Showing The Proposed Allocation Of Conrail Lines & Rights July 9, 1997
Petition for Supplemental Order- detailing the absorption of New York Central Lines, LLC by CSX
Predecessors of CSX Transportation
New York Central Railroad
Conrail
Railway companies established in 1998
Railway companies disestablished in 2004