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The Ohio River & Western Railroad was a 112-mile long (180 km) narrow gauge railway that was incorporated in 1875 and operated from 1877 or 1878 till 1931. The railroad was located in southeastern Ohio. The line ran from Bellaire (east point) to Zanesville (west end). The Ohio River and Western Railroad began construction as the Bellaire and ...
Youngstown and Connotton Valley Railroad: Ohio River Railway: N&W: 1877 1890 Scioto Valley Railway: Ohio River and Columbus Railway: Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad: NYC: 1897 1901 Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheeling Railroad: Ohio River and Western Railway: PRR: 1902 1931 Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad: Ohio Southern Railroad ...
In 1906, a group of promoters formed the Y&OR for the purpose of completing an electric railway link between Youngstown and the Ohio River. Initially they leased the tracks of the Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western (PL&W) between Washingtonville and Salem and strung trolley wire over the seven-mile (11 km) stretch of tracks. Construction began from ...
The original proposal for the railroad was for a 243-mile (391 km) route from Danville through Hume to the Ohio River. The portion running through Hume was completed and put into service in 1881. The north–south railroad was known by the following official and unofficial names: Kansas and Sidell; K & S; Old Dody; Dog River; Crab Oyster ...
The railroad of The Ohio River and Western Railway Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track narrow-gauge steam railroad, located in the eastern part of Ohio. The owned mileage extends in a westerly direction from Bellaire to Mill Run, a distance of 110.516 miles. There is about 15 miles of third rail for standard-gauge equipment.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system map, circa 1961. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway took financial control of the B&O in 1963. [52] On May 1, 1971, Amtrak had taken over all of the remaining non-commuter routes of the B&O. The B&O already had a controlling interest in the Western Maryland Railway.
The railroad received a $750,000 grant from the Ohio Rail Development Commission in May 2023 to support additional tracks in Newark Yard, the primary yard on the CUOH system. The grant also supported conversion of two manually-operated switches at the Ohio Central Railroad and Ohio Southern Railroad interchange in Zanesville. [4] [5]
Ohio Township and New Martinsville 1975 Moundsville Bridge: WV 2 Spur / SR 872 [1] Mead Township and Moundsville: 1986 B & O Railroad Viaduct: CSX Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line Bellaire and Benwood: 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) Bellaire and Benwood 1926