RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION

NORFOLK SOUTHERN

Youngstown Line

FORMERLY Pennsylvania Railroad (Pittsburgh Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad)
(Erie & Ashtabula Division)
CONSTRUCTED 1870-1873 by Ashtabula Youngstown & Pittsburgh Railroad
DOUBLE TRACK constructed 1900's by 1920
ABS installed 1920's (Niles Jct.-Wampum)
ABS installed 1930's (Wampum-Rochester)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: 1964
NOT INCLUDED IN CONRAIL 1976 (Niles Jct.-Youngstown)
DOWNGRADED 1980's (Youngstown-Rochester/temporary)
CTC installed 2000's/segments of second track eliminated (Youngstown-Rochester)

Radio Frequency - 160.800 (AAR Channel 46)

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is eastward from Niles Jct. to Youngstown
Distance is from Pittsburgh

ITALICS INDICATE ABANDONED SEGMENTS

77.8 Niles Jct.
76.6 Boanna
75.5 Detour
74.7 Niles
73.9 Belmont Street
70.0 Girard
69.7 Mosier
67.7 Division Street
66.3 Austintown
65.2 Youngstown

Direction is southward from Youngstown to Rochester
Distance is from Ashtabula

58.3 Youngstown
59.6 Center (CSX crossing)
59.9 West Haselton
60.2 Haselton
61.4 Graham
62.0 Struthers
63.8 Lowell
66.2 State Line
70.9 Edenburg
73.3 Coverts
74.8 New Castle Jct.
75.1 Cross Cut
75.8 Castle (Lawrence Jct.)
81.2 Wampum
94.9 Bright
97.2 Rochester

1 and 2 tracks, CTC in use, controlled by Youngstown Line Dispatcher in Pittsburgh.

South of Youngstown, mileposts are distances from Ashtabula via former New York Central. Mileposts have been changed from former Pennsylvania Railroad mileposts. This segment was temporarily downgraded during 1980's.

INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.