Main Line (Pittsburgh to St. Louis)

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The Pittsburgh to St. Louis Main Line was a

Richmond, the Louisville Branch and I&F Branch at Indianapolis, and the Peoria Branch at Farrington, Illinois
.

Large portions of the line have been abandoned; the only major pieces still in use are from

Columbus and Ohio River Rail Road (Ohio Central Railroad System), and west of Terre Haute, operated by CSX Transportation as part of its St. Louis Line Subdivision. Other existing pieces are from Rosslyn, Pennsylvania to Walkers Mill (Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad), Weirton Junction, West Virginia to Mingo Junction (Norfolk Southern Railway Weirton Secondary), Columbus to London, Ohio (NS Dayton District), Clement, Ohio to Dayton (NS), just east of Richmond, Indiana (NS New Castle District), and from Indianapolis to Ben Davis, Indiana (CSX Crawfordsville Branch Subdivision).[citation needed
]

History

The

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway,[8] owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad.[citation needed
]

The oldest part of the line was opened by the

Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway (the Indiana Central's successor) and the Little Miami in 1869, giving the PRR a line to Indianapolis (including an alternate route between Columbus and New Paris), fully operated by the PC&StL.[12]

The

Vandalia Railroad.[15]

The

Penn Central Transportation in 1968 and Conrail in 1976, after which large portions were sold off or abandoned.[citation needed
]

See also

References

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