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About CSX's Georges Creek Subdivision:
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| Photo by Wade H. Massie |
The Georges Creek Subdivision originally started life out in the 1850s as a mainline for the Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad. The Line that went through a coal boom after the Civil War came to an end due to the mines being worked out and union strikes. The C&P was in a hard time and Western Maryland acquires it in 1944 but the full merger did not occur till 1953. The line was then cut a Frostburg, turning it into a branch line. In the Western Maryland era mine runs were run by only four axle units and it was worked almost 6 days a week and more than 100 loads of coal a day. By the 1990s when CSX acquired the line the Clean Air Act and the limited supply of coal in the region the line was worked sporadically in the 1990s. But the Conrail merger in 1999 turned things around for the branch, an increase in demand increased activity on the line. There are two active coal load outs on the line, Tri-Star's load out in Morrison and United Energy's load out in Frostburg, MD.
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