In what may be the first step toward abandonment of the CSX Hoosier Subdivision in Southern Indiana, the Indiana Rail Road is seeking regulatory approval to end its trackage rights on the line.
INRD was the last user of the route, but has not moved traffic over for more than two years.
In is filing with the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, INRD said its network has been physically disconnected from the Hoosier Sub after it abandoned 22.8 miles of a former Milwaukee Road line in 2011 between Bedford and Crane, Indiana.
The Hoosier Sub, which was once part of the Chicago-Louisville, Kentucky, route of the Monon, extends for 72 miles between Bedford and New Albany, Indiana.
Most of the Hoosier Sub is out of service except for a portion of it in the New Albany region.
If the STB grants the INRD’s petition, the trackage rights would be discontinued on July 27.
CSX decommissioned the Hoosier Sub in November 2010 after a trestle over the White River south of Bedford burned, in what officials reported to be a suspicious blaze.
There were plans for the State of Indiana to buy the line but a local port authority was unable to raise enough money for that purpose.
The ex-Monon has been abandoned and the track removed between Bedford and Cloverdale, Indiana.
Tags: Bedford Indiana, CSX, CSX Hoosier Subdivision, Indiana Rail Road, Monon Railroad, U.S. Surface Transportation Board
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