Harrisburg Subdivision

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"Belmont Branch" redirects here. For the Norfolk Southern line, see Harrisburg Line. For the Long Island Rail Road service to Belmont Park racetrack, see Belmont Park station.
The Harrisburg Subdivision and other nearby lines in West Philadelphia

The Harrisburg Subdivision is a

railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Pennsylvania. The line is located in Philadelphia, and connects Greenwich Yard and the Philadelphia Subdivision with the Trenton Subdivision[1][2] along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line. Much of the Harrisburg Subdivision is the High Line' or West Philadelphia Elevated along 31st Street over the 30th Street Station
area.

The line begins at Greenwich Yard in

Arsenal Bridge. At Arsenal Interlocking, on the west side of the Schuylkill, a branch runs southwest alongside Amtrak's Northeast Corridor to a junction with the Philadelphia Subdivision
near Lindbergh Boulevard.

The main line heads north from Arsenal, rises onto the elevated structure, and crosses to the west side of the Northeast Corridor. It heads north above 31st Street, finally touching down in the southeast approach to

Belmont
.

History

19th century

The oldest portion of the Harrisburg Subdivision, along the west side of the

Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road the next year.[5]

From Arsenal east over the Arsenal Bridge and south along 25th Street to near Packer Avenue, the

Delaware Extension, completing it in 1862.[6] The rest of the line, south and east to Greenwich Yard, opened in 1900 as the Schuylkill River Branch Extension to serve League Island.[7]

The part of the Harrisburg Subdivision north of Zoo was built by the

Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road at Belmont.[8] The Junction Railroad also built the piece from Arsenal southwest to Grays Ferry, opened in 1866.[9] Through leases and mergers, the Junction Railroad became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad; the part from Zoo to Belmont was the Belmont Branch.[10] The West Philadelphia Elevated, completed in 1904, was built by the PRR as a separate freight route through the 30th Street Station area between Arsenal and Zoo Interlockings.[11]

20th century

The entire line became part of Conrail in 1976; the Delaware Extension, West Philadelphia Elevated, and Belmont Branch were grouped with the former Reading Company line to Reading and Harrisburg as the Harrisburg Line.[12]

In 1998, Conrail reconstructed the south end of the line, adding a direct connection from the

Chester Secondary to CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision and allowing CSX-Conrail freights to use the High Line.[13] The entire line from south of Arsenal to Belmont was assigned to CSX in the 1999 breakup of Conrail, while the rest of the Harrisburg Line became a Norfolk Southern Railway
line.

See also

References

  1. ^ CSX Timetables: Harrisburg Subdivision
  2. ^ CSX Curfew Update for Week of August 15: "Harrisburg Subdivision, From 58th Street to CP Gray and from CP Gray to Stadium"
  3. KiB
    )    , June 2004 Edition
  4. KiB
    )    , February 2005 Edition
  5. ^ "PRR Chronology, 1873" (PDF)., February 2005 Edition
  6. KiB
    )    , June 2004 Edition
  7. KiB
    )    , March 2005 Edition
  8. KiB
    )    , June 2004 Edition
  9. KiB
    )    , June 2004 Edition
  10. KiB
    )    , March 2005 Edition
  11. KiB
    )    , March 2005 Edition
  12. ^ Conrail System Map Showing The Proposed Allocation Of Conrail Lines & Rights Archived 2012-07-07 at archive.today, July 9, 1997
  13. ^ "Philadelphia Area Rail News, 1998-99". Archived from the original on 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2006-11-22.

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