The Hanover Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The line runs from Baltimore, Maryland west to Hagerstown, Maryland[1] along a former Western Maryland Railway line. Hagerstown (ˈheɪgɚztaʊn is the County seat of Washington County, Maryland, United States. The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It meets the Baltimore Terminal Subdivision at its east end, and the Lurgan Subdivision heads both north and west from its west end. The Lurgan Subdivision is a Railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U
History
The Western Maryland Railroad built from the end of the Northern Central Railway's Green Spring Branch at Owings Mills to Hagerstown, opening its line between 1862[2] and 1872. The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The Northern Central Railway was a rail line connecting Baltimore Maryland with Sunbury Pennsylvania. Owings Mills is an Unincorporated community and a Census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. [3] The Hanover Subdivision southeast of Owings Mills opened in 1873, allowing the Western Maryland to stop using the Green Spring Branch. [4]
The Western Maryland's original main line took a shorter path than the Hanover Subdivision between Emory Grove, Maryland and Highfield, Maryland. The first piece of the current route to be built was between Porters, Pennsylvania and Hanover, Pennsylvania, opened in 1852 as part of the Hanover Branch Railroad. See also Hanover Township Pennsylvania Hanover is a Borough in York County, Pennsylvania [5] The Gettysburg Railroad opened the piece between Hanover and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1858. Gettysburg is a borough 38 miles (68 km south by southwest of Harrisburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA, of which it is the [6] In the 1870s, the line from Emory Grove north to Porters was built by the Bachman Valley Railroad and Baltimore and Hanover Railroad. The Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad extended the line from Gettysburg west to Orrtanna, Pennsylvania in the 1870s or 1880s, and the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway Western Extension opened the rest of line from Orrtanna west to Highfield in 1889. Orrtanna is an unincorporated Census-designated place in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
All of these lines became part of the Western Maryland and CSX through leases and mergers.
References
- ^ CSX Timetables: Hanover Subdivision
- ^ PRR Chronology, 1862PDF (140 KiB), June 2004 Edition
- ^ PRR Chronology, 1872PDF (86. A kibibyte (a contraction of ki lo bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, established by the International 1 KiB), February 2005 Edition
- ^ PRR Chronology, 1873PDF (100 KiB), February 2004 Edition
- ^ PRR Chronology, 1852PDF (83. A kibibyte (a contraction of ki lo bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, established by the International A kibibyte (a contraction of ki lo bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, established by the International 5 KiB), March 2005 Edition
- ^ PRR Chronology, 1858PDF (56. A kibibyte (a contraction of ki lo bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, established by the International 8 KiB), March 2005 Edition
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