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Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway: Ohio and Indiana State Line Railroad: NYC: 1880 1881 Ohio, Indiana and Pacific Railway: Ohio, Indiana and Western Railway: NYC: 1887 1890 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: Ohio and Kanawha Railway: NYC: 1886 1886 Kanawha and Ohio Railway: Ohio and Kentucky Bridge Company: C&O: 1886 1886
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 ...
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WE) is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the areas of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. It took its name from the former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway , most of which it bought from the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1990.
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in 1827, and the "Laying ...
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WLE) was a Class I railroad mostly within the U.S. state of Ohio.It was leased to the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road) in 1949, and merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1988.
Of the total of 384.66 miles of railroad owned on the date of demise, 362.18 miles were acquired on January 1, 1880, in the consolidation of the properties of The Lake Erie and Western Railway Company (1879) and the LaFayette, Bloomington and Muncie Railway Company, and 22.48 miles by completion of road partially constructed by the city of ...
The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad began as three separate railroads: the Erie and New York City Railroad based in Jamestown, New York; the Meadville Railroad based in Meadville, Pennsylvania (renamed A&GW in April 1858); and the Franklin and Warren Railroad based in Franklin Mills, Ohio (renamed A&GW in January 1853).
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.