The Shenandoah Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of West Virginia and Virginia. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The line runs from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia southwest to Strasburg, Virginia[1] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road line. Harpers Ferry redirects here For other uses see Harpers Ferry (disambiguation. Strasburg is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, that was founded in 1761 by Peter Stover The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B&O) was one of the Oldest railroads in the United States and the first Common carrier railroad Its northeast end is at a junction with the Cumberland Subdivision; at its southwest end, it intersects the Norfolk Southern Railway's B-Line. The Cumberland Subdivision is a Railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U This article is about the present railroad formed in 1990 For the former regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina a small part of the new one see Norfolk Southern The B-Line is a Railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U
The piece from Harpers Ferry to Winchester opened in 1836 as the Winchester and Potomac Railroad. Winchester is an independent city located in the state of Virginia. The Winchester and Strasburg Railroad opened the rest of the line in 1870. The line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.