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Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad: B&O: 1867 1900 Ohio Midland Railroad: Newburgh and South Shore Railway: N&SS, NSS 1899 1986 Cuyahoga Valley Railway, Newburgh and South Shore Railroad: Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company: L&N: 1868 1904 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Niles and New Lisbon Railway: ERIE: 1869 1872 Cleveland and ...
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System ; its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation .
The earliest predecessor of the Hocking Valley was the Mineral Railroad, incorporated in April 1864 to build from Athens in the rich Hocking Valley to Columbus. [2] The company changed its name to the Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad in June 1867, shortly after construction began at Columbus, [3] and the line opened for business from Columbus to Lancaster on January 20, 1869, Logan on ...
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama , Kentucky , Mississippi , and Tennessee . It was planned to span the distance between the seaport of Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois . [ 2 ]
During construction absorbed Sharpsville, Wheatland, Sharon and Greenfield Railroad in 1881 Westerman Coal and Iron Railroad: Ohio Line in Sharon: Wheatland: 1.5 miles (2.4 km) New Castle and Shenango Valley Railroad: West Middlesex: New Castle: 16.1 miles (25.9 km) 1900- Tioga Railroad: Northern Extension Pennsylvania Line in Lindley: Corning
D&LN logo old DT&I Railroad map. In 1901, the merger of the Detroit and Lima Northern Railway and the Ohio Southern Railway formed the Detroit Southern Railroad. [1] This company was purchased at foreclosure on May 1, 1905, by Harry B. Hollins & Company of New York, which reincorporated it in the state of Michigan under the name of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington , it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of ...
Railroad Depots of Central Ohio. Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-6174-5 – via Google Books. Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (1904). Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs to the Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year 1903. Springfield, OH: The Springfield Publishing Co ...