The Rivanna Subdivision is 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

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

. It was formerly part of the CSX Huntington East Division. It became part of the CSX

Florence Division The Florence Division is a railroad division operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia. The Florence Division has 60 Subdivisio ...

on June 20, 2016. The line runs from

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, to Gladstone, Virginia, for a total of 119.2 miles. From its eastern terminus in Richmond, the line continues east as the

Peninsula Subdivision The Peninsula Extension which created the Peninsula Subdivision of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) was the new railroad line on the Virginia Peninsula from Richmond to southeastern Warwick County. Its principal purpose was to provide an i ...

and at its west end the line continues west as the

James River Subdivision The Richmond and Alleghany Railroad was built along the James River (Virginia), James River along the route of the James River and Kanawha Canal from Richmond, Virginia, Richmond on the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, Fall Line at the head of navigati ...

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