[3] After Pennsylvania Railroad successor Penn Central Transportation went bankrupt, both sections became part of Conrail in 1976,[2][3] while the remainder of the Cincinnati and Richmond Railroad to the north instead became the Norfolk Southern New Castle District.
The connections through Downtown Cincinnati over the Waterfront Belt Line to Queensgate and over the L&N Railroad Bridge to Kentucky were severed in 1984 and 1986 respectively.
[4] In 1994, the land and tracks were purchased by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA), with the Indiana and Ohio Railway acquiring usage rights for freight traffic.
[5] In 2021, an agreement was reached to convert the northerly of two tracks on southern portion of the line into a rail trail, filling a gap in the Ohio River Trail.
The agreement involved the Indiana and Ohio Railway giving up its easement on the northern track to SORTA, and the installation of a fence between the southern track and the trail.