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The Muskingum Electric Railroad was a private coal-carrying railroad owned by American Electric Power, and started operation in 1968. [1] MERR shuttled coal in two trains from the mine to a powerplant at Relief, Ohio (across from Beverly, OH), a distance of 20 miles (32 km).
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
Mining railways in the United States. United States portal; Trains portal; Pages in category "Mining railways in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this ...
Northern Ohio Railway: ACY: 1895 1944 Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad: Northwestern Ohio Railway: PRR: 1876 1891 Toledo, Walhonding Valley and Ohio Railroad: Nypano Railroad: ERIE: 1896 1941 Erie Railroad: Oberlin and La Grange Railway: Ohio Railroad: NYC: 1836 1852 Junction Railroad: Ohio Railway: 1894 1894 Findlay, Fort Wayne and ...
In the United States, the standard gauge for mine haulage is 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), although gauges from 18 in (457 mm) to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) are used. [13] [14] Original mine railways used wax-impregnated wooden rails attached to wooden sleepers, on which drams were dragged by men, children or animals. This was later replaced by L-shaped iron ...
The first of these was the Sharon Railway, which was constructed by the Sharon Iron Co. in 1862 to link its iron works with the Brier Hill coal mine in Brookfield Township, Ohio. [104] This 2.09-mile (3.36 km) long industrial railroad extended from the Pennsylvania-Ohio border to Sharon, Pennsylvania , [ 105 ] and then slightly north to ...
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 Y&OR connected with three other interurban railways. It connected with the Youngstown and Southern Railway at Leetonia, which provided a through route between Youngstown and East Liverpool, and it connected with the Stark Electric Railroad at Salem, on which passengers could ride west to Canton and a connection with the rest of the Indiana-Ohio interurban network.