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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 ...
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
During late 1880, he formally acquired the defunct W&LE and by early 1881 things got underway. Actual construction commenced east and west of Creston and by November 1881 the line was finished from Massillon to Norwalk/Huron. It eventually completed a route connecting Pittsburgh, PA (Rook) and Toledo, Ohio. Most freight traffic on the line was ...
The railroad expanded west to Chicago following its 1865 merger with the former Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, also known as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (NYPANO RR). The mainline route of the Erie Railroad proved influential in the development and economic growth of the Southern Tier of New York state , including the ...
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 passenger station at Warren was located at the junction of South Street (U.S. Route 422 / State Route 169) and Main Avenue in the downtown of the city of Warren, Ohio. The depot, which ran alongside Main Avenue, was an Erie Railroad Type IV (types were determined in a 1918–1920 report to the Interstate Commerce Commission ), with ...
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).