Raleigh Southwestern and Winding Gulf Subdivision explained

The Raleigh Southwestern & Winding Creek Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was formerly part of the CSX Huntington East Division.^[1] It became part of the CSX Florence Division on June 20, 2016.

The line runs from Raleigh, West Virginia, to Pemberton, West Virginia, for a total of . At its east end the line branches off the Piney Creek Subdivision,^[2] and at its west end the line becomes Norfolk Southern's Winding Gulf Branch of the Princeton–Deepwater District.^[3]

The line was completed in 1912 and connected with the Winding Gulf Branch, then part of the Virginian Railway, in 1917.^[4]

See also

• List of CSX Transportation lines

Notes and References

1. Web site: Huntington East Division Timetable. Multimodalways.org. 2017-08-04.
2. Web site: RZ-Raleigh Southwestern and Winding Gulf Sub . Wiki.radioreference.com. 2017-04-07.
3. Web site: 2020-03-24 . Winding Gulf Coal Field . 2022-04-21 . West Virginia Explorer Magazine . en-US.
4. Book: Callahan, James Morton . History of West Virginia, Old and New . 1923 . American Historical Society . 441 . en.