Erie West Subdivision

The Erie West Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The line runs from Derby, New York southwest along the shore of Lake Erie to Cleveland, Ohio, along the former New York Central Railroad main line.

Erie West Subdivision
Overview
Other name(s)	Lake Shore Subdivision, Chicago Line, Great Lakes Service Lane
Status	Active
Owner	CSX
Locale	Lake Erie
Termini	Euclid, Ohio Buffalo, New York
Service
Type	Freight, Inter-city rail
System	CSX Transportation
Operator(s)	CSX, Amtrak
Technical
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map MP.0 Cleveland Terminal Subdivision I-90 168.3 Wickliffe 166.8 CP 167 165.0 Eastlake Eastlake power plant 163.7 Willoughby Chagrin River 162.1 CP 162 159.4 Mentor Lincoln Electric facility to NS Lake Erie District Greenbridge siding 155.8 CP 155 Lubrizol industrial track Grand River Yard B&O Fairport Branch to Warren 154.0 Morton Salt industrial track 153.2 Painesville Grand River ? 148.7 CP 148 147.5 Perry 145.2 Madison 142.5 Madison NS Lake Erie District Cowles Creek 134.8 CP 134 Indian Creek 130.3 CP 130 CSX Ashtabula Yard 128.0 NS Youngstown Line Ashtabula Ashtabula River SR 11 Industrial running track Fields Brook 124.6 CP 124 INEOS Pigments spur 114.5 Conneaut CN Bessemer Subdivision (B&LE) Conneaut Creek 113.1 CP 113 112.4 State line OH PA 111.0 Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Co. Raccoon Creek 108.6 Springfield Duck Run Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Elk Creek Lake City Godfrey Run 97.5 CP 97 Walnut Creek Asbury 89.7 CP 89 National Lime & Stone Co. industrial track NS Lake Erie District 88.7 Erie hotbox detector 87.4 CP 87 86.9 Erie 86.1 Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad 86.0 Ash St. 85.6 CP 85 84.9 Ore dock spur 84.5 Hammermill scale 84.2 CSX Erie Yard NS Lake Erie District East Erie Commercial Railroad 83.2 CP 83 East Erie Commercial Railroad 75.1 NE, PA hotbox detector 73.3 CP 73 73.0 North East station Lakeshore Railway Museum 68.4 State line PA NY 68.2 Ripley hotbox detector 65.3 Ripley 58.2 CP 58 Chautauqua Creek Jamestown, Westfield, and Northwestern Trolley 57.5 Westfield 56.2 CP 56 Brocton 50.0 CP 49 PRR Chautauqua Branch 49.41 Brocton hotbox detector I-90 47.2 CP 47 Canadaway Creek 42.6 Dunkirk hotbox detector 42.5 CP 42 Dunkirk Power LLC. 40.3 Dunkirk 40.1 CP 39 CSX Dunkirk Yard 37.0 CP 37 32.8 siding 31.4 Silver Creek 30.8 CP 31 Silver Creek 28.9 Irving hotbox detector 28.3 Cattaraugus Creek 27.0 Irving NY 5 Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company 23.0 CP 23 21.4 Angola NS Lake Erie District Big Sister Creek 19.0 Angola hotbox detector 15.6 CP 15 Eighteen Mile Creek Lake View 10.2 Bayview hotbox detector NS Buffalo Line PRR West Seneca Branch LV Lehigh and Lake Erie Branch 8.1 Smoke Creek 5.4 CP 5 4.2 Seneca Yard 4.19 Ridge Rd. South Buffalo Railway CSX Ohio St. Yard 2.2 CP 2 Track #3 2.1 Ohio St. Buffalo Terminal Subdivision

At its east end (east of downtown Buffalo), the Erie West Subdivision becomes the Buffalo Terminal Subdivision; at its west end (east of downtown Cleveland), it becomes the Cleveland Terminal Subdivision. This subdivision is also known as the Great Lakes Service Lane. Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited uses the Erie West Subdivision.

History

The line was built by the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad and opened in 1852. Through mergers, leases, and takeovers, it became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, New York Central Railroad, and Conrail. When Conrail was broken up in 1999, the main line east of Cleveland, including the Erie West Subdivision, was assigned to CSX. In 2007 in Painesville, Ohio on this line, a major freight train derailment occurred resulting in the spill of ethanol and a large fire.

In 2010, its eastern terminus was extended to Buffalo when the Lake Shore Subdivision was transferred from the Albany Division to the Great Lakes Division and absorbed.

See also

• CSX Bridge (Painesville, Ohio)

References

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/