It did operate subsidized contract service on 3 miles between Pomeroy and Buck Run, Conrail, System Map , as of August 31, 1978 William Richard Black, Railroads for Rent: The Local Rail Service Assistance Program, Indiana University Press, 1986, p. 224 but this was discontinued in about 1980.date=December 2008 Operation of the short piece at Newark, by then owned by Amtrak, went to the Norfolk Southern Railway in the 1999 breakup of Conrail.