Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
Antwerp station is a historic former train station in the village of Antwerp in the far western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Built in 1880 by the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway, [1] it is a primarily wooden structure with weatherboarded walls. [2] Its roof features a distinctively large overhang. [3]
Cincinnati Northern Railway (1880–83) Cincinnati Northern Railroad (1894–1938) ... Ohio and North Western Railroad; Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad (1848–56)
Celina, Van Wert and State Line Extension of the Columbus and North-Western Railway; Cincinnati, Batavia and Williamsburg Railroad; Cincinnati District; Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway; Cincinnati Northern Railway (1880–83)
During 1879 and 1880, the Seney Syndicate linked together several short railroads in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to form the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. The Seney Syndicate was headed by George I. Seney, a New York banker. Eastern members of the Syndicate included the successful speculators John T. Martin, Edward H. R. Lyman, Alexander M ...
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 ...
In 1880 another 3-foot narrow gauge line, the Connotton Valley Railway, was formed; building north from Canton, Ohio to Cleveland and then south to Coshocton, Ohio and Zanesville. The Connotton Valley became the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad and was converted to standard gauge in one day on November 18, 1888.