New River Junction

New River Junction
	File:Map of Butler County Ohio Highlighting New Miami Village.png Description English: Map of the municipal and township boundaries of Butler County, Ohio, United States, as of the 2000 census, with the location of the village of New Miami highlighted which is the location of the junction. Township borders are shown only in unincorporated areas in order to differentiate incorporated and unincorporated areas more clearly.
Overview
Type	Freight rail
System	CSX Transportation Toledo Subdivision & Norfolk Southern New Castle District
Status	Operational
Locale	New Miami, Ohio
Operation
Owner	CSX Transportation
Operator(s)	CSX Transportation & Norfolk Southern
Technical
Number of tracks	North: 1 diverging to the left Norfolk Southern New Castle District & 2 diverging to the right CSX Transportation Toledo Subdivision/ South Bound 2 tracks shared to Butler Street Interlocker in Hamilton, Ohio
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

Steam excursions

Steam excursions have passed through the junction with Nickel Plate 765, in 1984 as a Cincinnati 1984 National Railway Historical Society National Convention excursion, on 8/25/1984 from Cincinnati to Muncie, IN, which would take the Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision to Hamilton, Ohio then take the New Castle District at New River Junction in New Miami, Ohio. The next day on 8/26/1984 on a trip from Cincinnati to Indianapolis over the Indianapolis Subdivision west from Hamilton, Ohio after coming up the CSX Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision again. The engine would pass by again 9/4/1984 on a one way ferry move hauling freight taking the same route as the trip to Muncie, IN, this time headed from Ludlow, KY back home to Ft. Wayne, IN.

Would also pass through 9/7/1982 hauling freight on a one way ferry move from Lima, Ohio to Cincinnati on the CSX Toledo Subdivision for weekend excursions after coming from its homebase in Ft. Wayne, IN. These excursions 9/11-12/1982 from Cincinnati to Muncie, IN would run on the Norfolk Southern New Castle District. Would pass through yet again on another one way ferry move on 10/27/1986, from Cincinnati back home to Ft. Wayne, IN on the way back from pulling the New River Train in West Virginia taking the CSX Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision, then the Norfolk Southern New Castle District at New River Junction in New Miami, Ohio.

On 10/15/1990 would pass through on a one way ferry move hauling freight again headed from Lima, Ohio to Cincinnati while on its way to West Virginia to pull the New River Train again, then headed back through on 10/29/1990. Also in 1993 this time dressed up as Chesapeake & Ohio 2765 on a trip sponsored by the Cincinnati Railroad Club on 10/3/1993, on another trip from Cincinnati to Indianapolis and return over the CSX Indianapolis Subdivision.

The Chessie Safety Express with Chesapeake & Ohio 614 would pass through 5/9/1981 on a round trip from Cincinnati to Lima, Ohio and return on the Chessie System Toledo Subdivision. The American Freedom Train would pass through with Reading 2101 on 6/12/1975 headed from Cincinnati to Archbold, Ohio on the Chessie System Toledo Subdivision heading north. On 8/3/1991 Nickel Plate 765 & Pere Marquette 1225 would both together pass through as a doubleheader deadhead move from Lima, Ohio south down the CSX Toledo Subdivision to Cincinnati, while heading to the 1991 National Railway Historical Society National Convention in Huntington, West Virginia.

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