The Pittsburgh Subdivision is a

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line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of

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. The line runs from

McKeesport McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census. It ...

northwest through

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...

to West Pittsburg (near New Castle) along a former

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line. Its east end is at Sinns, across the

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from McKeesport at

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, at the west end of the

Keystone Subdivision The Keystone Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Cumberland, Maryland, west to McKeesport, Pennsylvania, (near Pittsburgh) along a former Baltimo ...

. It junctions with the Mon Subdivision at McKeesport and the

P&W Subdivision The P&W Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation, the Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR), and the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from Rankin north through Pitts ...

in Rankin; at its west end it becomes the New Castle Terminal Subdivision.

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's ''

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'' uses the line southeast of Rankin.

History

The line northwest of Pittsburgh opened in 1879 as part of the

. The rest of the line, southeast from Pittsburgh, was opened in 1883 by the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad. The latter company was leased by the P&LE. In 1934, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began operating through trains via

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over the P&LE between McKeesport (slightly north of the current beginning of the Pittsburgh Subdivision until the bridge at Sinns opened in 1968) and New Castle, leaving the

for local trains only. , August 2004 Edition Eventually the P&LE, which had been jointly owned by CSX and Conrail, was merged into CSX.

References

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History

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