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The line also hosted passenger trains between the charter railroad's namesake cities, notably The Buckeye Limited (later renamed The Clevelander) and the Steeler. In 1968, the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with long time rival New York Central Railroad, to form Penn Central Transportation Company. The merger essentially failed, resulting in the ...
Akron and Pittsburgh Railroad: ACY: 1895 1899 Northern Ohio Railway: Akron Terminal Railway: ACY/ B&O/ ERIE/ PRR: 1901 1901 Barberton, Akron and Eastern Railway: Akron Transfer Railroad: ACY: 1891 1902 Richland and Mahoning Railway: Akron Union Passenger Depot Company: B&O/ PRR: 1891 1975 N/A Alliance and Lake Erie Railroad: NYC: 1878 1882
The Northern Ohio was incorporated on August 14, 1895, under the general laws of the State of Ohio, for the purpose of acquiring the property of The Pittsburgh, Akron & Western Railroad Company, which had been sold at foreclosure. The Northern Ohio later acquired by purchase the property of The Akron and Pittsburgh Railroad Company.
The eastbound train left Akron’s Union Depot at 11:08 p.m. for Washington, arriving in Pittsburgh at 1:36 a.m. The westbound train for Chicago arrived in Akron at 1:50 a.m.
The Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad opened tracks from New Castle to Youngstown and a line continuing west to Valley Junction (near Akron, Ohio) in 1884. On August 1, 1887, much of PC&T's railway was leased by the Pittsburgh and Western Railway Company for passenger service directly between Chicago, Illinois to Philadelphia ...
The line ran from Hudson, Ohio, on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad south through Akron, crossing the PFW&C at Orrville and continuing to Millersburg. In 1868 a short 3.5 mile (5.5 km) extension to the south was built, and on November 4, 1869, the PFW&C sold the line to the Pittsburgh, Mt. Vernon, Columbus and London Railroad .
The company was founded in 1907 as the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railway and in 1912 completed a 9.5-mile (15.3 km) line from Mogadore to Akron. Effective March 1, 1920, the AC&Y leased the Northern Ohio Railway, an Akron–Delphos, Ohio line that had been part of the New York Central Railroad system via the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. [1]
This portion has not seen a train since 2014, and both bridges on the line have been fenced off. A three-foot (1 m) section of rail was also cut from the line just west of Carnegie in 2015, rendering the line completely impassible. It is owned by the Ohio Central Railroad System, which is a division of the rail holding company Genesee & Wyoming ...