Wilkes-Barre Branch (PRR)
| Sunbury Line formerly known as Sunbury Subdivision |
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| Overview | |
| Termini |
Binghamton, New York Sunbury, Pennsylvania |
| Operation | |
| Opened | 1851 (Lackawanna and Western Railroad), 1869 and 1871 (Danville, Hazelton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad), 1880's (North and West Branch Railway), 1915 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad- Nicholson Cutoff) |
| Technical | |
| Number of tracks | 1-2 |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
The Sunbury Line (formerly known as Sunbury Subdivision) is a rail line that is owned and operated by Norfolk Southern Railway which in turn is owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The line travels from Sunbury, Pennsylvania to Binghamton, New York, connecting with Norfolk Southern's Southern Tier Line at Binghamton and Norfolk Southern's Buffalo Line at Sunbury.
The rail line was once part of the former Delaware and Hudson Railway South Line and that ran from Sunbury to Schenectady, New York. It's now a rail corridor and it now consists of the Sunbury Line and the Freight Line which travels from Binghamton to Schenectady, the Freight Line is also owned by Norfolk Southern Railway; the Binghamton to Schenectady part of the once known D&H South Line was once part of the D&H main line also.
The Sunbury Line's trackage consists of former trackage belong to the rail systems of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The Sunbury Line contains the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's well known Nicholson Cutoff railroad segment. The Tunkhannock Viaduct is one of the components of the Nicholson Cutoff/Sunbury Line.
The Sunbury Line is a former Pennsylvania Railroad property connecting its core system with the other anthracite rail lines in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the line's Pennsylvania Railroad trackage was once the Wilkes-Barre Branch. The Sunbury Line is also a former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad property as the Sunbury Line's Scranton, Pennsylvania to Binghamton trackage was once part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western main line; this part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western main line which is now part of the Sunbury Line contains the Nicholson Cutoff and former Lackawanna and Western Railroad trackage. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western later merged with the Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railway.
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