The Niagara Subdivision is a

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line owned and operated by

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in the U.S. state of

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. The line runs from Buffalo north and west to Niagara Falls along former

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and Lehigh Valley Railroad lines. Its south end is at the

Buffalo Terminal Subdivision The Buffalo Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of New York. The line runs from Churchville, New York, to Hamburg, New York.http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/CSX/CSX%20ETTs/CSX% ...

; its north end is just east of the Canada–US border at

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, at the CSX Transportation Niagara Falls Yard. It junctions the Belt Subdivision in Buffalo and the Lockport Subdivision east of Niagara Falls.

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's ''

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'' operates over the entire Niagara Subdivision; the '' Empire Service'' uses the line up to the border at the Niagara Falls station.

History

The Buffalo and Black Rock Railroad opened a line from downtown Buffalo north to Black Rock in 1834. The

Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad The Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad was a part of the New York Central Railroad system, connecting Buffalo, New York to Niagara Falls. It is still used by CSX for freight and Amtrak for passenger service. History The Buffalo and Black Rock Rai ...

extended the line to Tonawanda in 1837 and Niagara Falls in 1840, coinciding with the current line south of the curve near Wheatfield. The line from Niagara Falls east to what is now the west end of the Lockport Subdivision opened in 1838 as part of the

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. A cutoff bypassing downtown Niagara Falls opened in or near the 1950s, forming the current line. The line became part of the

and

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through leases, mergers and takeovers, and was assigned to

in the 1999 breakup of

References

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History

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