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Robert W. Richardson was born on May 21, 1910, in Rochester, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Akron, Ohio, in 1915, and attended high school there.As a teenager, he enjoyed watching and photographing trains in Ohio and Pennsylvania: his photographic archiving of soon-to-vanish railroads began in May 1931 when he borrowed a camera to record a day with the Ohio River & Western Railway ...
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. [1] He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. [2]
Full Report, Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs to the Governor of the State of Ohio For the Year 1902; CCH&DRR Family Tree. Retrieved on May 16, 2005. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway (1914), List of Officers, Agents, Stations, Sidings and Mileage (reprinted in 1996 by Trains & Stuff, Ltd.)
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 ...
Auto-Train Corporation begins running as independent line (1971), but fails in 1981; In 1983, Amtrak revives service and runs slightly renamed "Auto Train" as one of its more-heavily promoted lines. 1977: Amtrak carried 19.2 million passengers an average of 226 miles. [18] 1980: Railroads deregulated by Congress by Staggers Rail Act of 1980. [19]
The original line was variously the Cleveland, Canton and Southern, among other names, and joined the actual W. & L.E. in Brewster, Ohio, south of Canton, where the W. & L.E. mainline crosses from Toledo in the northwest going to Martins Ferry, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Wheeling. Passenger trains operated until the 1930s from Cleveland ...
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 History of The Baltimore & Ohio. Crescent Books. ISBN 978-0517676035. Summers, Festus (1939). The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War. Stan Clark Military Books. Hungerford, Edward (1928). The Story of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Two volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. "Artists' Excursion over the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road".