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S&C Subdivision

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S&C Subdivision
Overview
Other name(s)Somerset and Cambria Subdivision
StatusOperational
OwnerCSX
LocalePennsylvania
Termini
Service
TypeFreight rail
SystemCSX
Operator(s)CSX
Technical
Number of tracks1
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
SignallingBFC
Route map

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The S&C Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from the Keystone Subdivision at Rockwood north to Johnstown[2][3][4] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, once the Somerset and Cambria Railroad.

History

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The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad connected Somerset to what was then the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad as it passed through Rockwood (then called Mineral Point)[5] in the early 1870s.

The Johnstown & Somerset Railroad followed the Stonycreek valley north-by-northeast from Somerset through Stoystown to Johnstown around 1880. The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad and the Johnstown & Somerset Railroad were combined and reorganized as the Somerset and Cambria Branch Railroad.[5]

Through leases and mergers, the line became part of the B&O and then CSX.

References

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  1. ^ https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/SC-S_and_C_Sub
  2. ^ CSX Timetables: S&C Subdivision
  3. ^ http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/SC-S_and_C_Sub [unreliable source?]
  4. ^ CSX Baltimore Division Timetable
  5. ^ a b History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co. 1884. p. 180.