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Overview | |
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Service type | Freight rail |
Status | Active |
Locale | Eastern Kentucky Coalfield Southwest Virginia |
First service | late 1880s[1] |
Current operator(s) | CSX Transportation |
Former operator(s) | Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
Route | |
Termini | Corbin, Kentucky, United States Big Stone Gap, Virginia, United States |
Distance travelled | 122.4 mi (197.0 km)[2] |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
Operating speed | 10–60 mph (16–97 km/h) |
Track owner(s) | CSX Transportation |
Timetable number(s) | CV, WB, WH, WM |
The Cumberland Valley Subdivision (CV Subdivision) is a railroad line owned and operated by the CSX Railroad (CSX Transportation) in the U.S. states of Kentucky and Virginia. The line runs from Corbin, Kentucky, east to Big Stone Gap, Virginia,[3] along a former Louisville and Nashville Railroad line.
At its west end, the CC Subdivision heads north to Cincinnati, Ohio, and the KD Subdivision heads south to Etowah, Tennessee. The east end is at an interchange with the Norfolk Southern Railway Appalachia District, where CSX trains can proceed south to the Kingsport Subdivision at Frisco, Tennessee, via trackage rights.[4][5]