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The SkyStar Wheel was scheduled to open at The Banks on August 31, 2018, but was delayed until September 1, 2018 due to weather. [13] It opened to help celebrate the Banks' ten-year anniversary and was located across from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. [13] The wheel remained open at this location until March 1, 2020.
From its earliest years, the rail line was a highly significant component of village life: Oberlin College students and other travellers had previously relied on weather-dependent Lake Erie transportation routes, so the all-weather railroad line provided an immense boost to the college and to the community in general. [4]
It is still owned by the City of Cincinnati and is leased to the CNO&TP under a long-term lease; it is the only such long-distance railway owned by a municipality in the United States. The CNO&TP's lease of the Cincinnati Southern Railway is currently set to expire in 2026, with an option for a 25-year renewal. [8]
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Lake Shore Electric Railway Story. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33797-6. Hilton, George W. & Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4014-2. OCLC 237973. Keenan, Jack (1974). Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad: Ohio's Great Interurban System.
The February 2023 derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line led to new safety rules and increased scrutiny of the rail industry and federal regulators. For more CNN news and newsletters ...
In later years the railroad was also controlled by the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. Rumors of control by the Pennsylvania Railroad floated in the mid-1890s, [10] with control of the CA&C ultimately gained in 1899. [7] The CA&C merged with the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad in 1911. [11] Passenger services on the line ended on ...
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