Amtrak's Capitol Limited uses the CSX portion of the line, switching to the NS Pittsburgh Line at Bloomfield.
History
The Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad opened the oldest section of the P&W Subdivision, from Rankin to Greenfield, in 1857.[4]
The Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake Erie opened a line from Etna north to Zelienople in 1879. It became the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad that same year, and in 1880 it was extended north to Wurtemberg (near Ellwood City) and southwest from Etna to Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh).[5] It was soon extended north to New Castle,[6] forming a line that includes today's P&W Subdivision from the 33rd Street Railroad Bridge to West Pittsburgh.
The Pittsburgh Junction Railroad built a line connecting the two railroads through the east side of Pittsburgh and over the 33rd Street Railroad Bridge in 1884.[6][7] The B&O acquired all three lines by leases and mergers, and they later passed to CSX.
In 2003, CSX sought the Surface Transportation Board's permission to abandon the line from Glenshaw north to Bakerstown, which had not seen local traffic for at least two years.[12] A month later, the Allegheny Valley Railroad leased the piece from Bloomfield north to Glenshaw and acquired trackage rights from Bloomfield south to the W&P Subdivision, which it leased simultaneously.[13][14] Almost immediately after that, the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad leased the line from Glenshaw north to West Pittsburg.[15] On May 15, 2019, the Allegheny Valley Railroad acquired the section of the P&W Subdivision that it had been leasing from CSX.[16]
Surface Transportation Board, Docket FD_34431_0, Allegheny Valley Railroad Company--lease, operation and trackage rights exemption--lines of CSX Transportation, Inc., November 26, 2003
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