The Long Fork Subdivision was a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation operates a Class I railroad in the United States known as the CSX Railroad. It is the main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns approximately 21,000 route miles...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

. It split from the E&BV Subdivision

E&BV Subdivision

The CSX E&BV Subdivision is 39.2 miles long with milepost pre-fixes of CMO from CMO 3.2 to Milepost CMO 42.4. The station is at Martin, Kentucky. 606-285-3212 1-800-232-0144 for emergencies. The yard has 8 track total, two sidings, & on wye that conects the martin yard to Bids terminal. it has two...

 at Martin

Martin, Kentucky

As of the census of 2000, there were 633 people, 295 households, and 166 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,357.5 people per square mile . There were 339 housing units at an average density of 727.0 per square mile...

 and ran south to a dead end at Hi Hat. CSX filed to abandon all but the first 3 miles (5 km) from Martin to Salisbury in 2003; it had not seen traffic since ca. 1990. However, due to complications regarding possible leasing by a coal company, the line was not abandoned until 2006. , that lease is planned to take effect.

The line was built in the 1910s or early 1920s by the Long Fork Railway, a Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road subsidiary. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P...

acquired it in 1933, and it passed through mergers to CSX.