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The Little Miami Railroad was a railway of southwestern Ohio, running from the eastern side of Cincinnati to Springfield, Ohio. By merging with the Columbus and Xenia Railroad in 1853, it created the first through-rail route from the important manufacturing city of Cincinnati to the state capital, Columbus .
From December 1, 1853, to November 29, 1868, the Little Miami Railroad and the Columbus and Xenia operated their property jointly. The property of the Columbus and Xenia was leased to the Little Miami Railroad on November 30, 1868, through an agreement dated March 18, 1869, for a period extending to November 31, 1967, renewable forever.
The CC&HV extended from Jeffersonville with the Ohio Southern west to Claysville Junction on the Little Miami Railroad's Cincinnati-Xenia main line. Organized on December 9, 1875, as the Waynesville, Port William & Jeffersonville Railroad Co. The owners were among group of ten involved with the Springfield, Jackson & Pomoroy.
The southern part of the line was built by the Little Miami Railroad, the second railroad chartered in Ohio, from 1837 to 1848. In 1870, it came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad. [2] The northern part was built by the Cincinnati and Richmond Railroad in 1888, and came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1928. [3]
That line opened in 1888, running southeast to the Little Miami Railroad at Rendcomb Junction, east of Cincinnati. The CR&C and R&M were merged into the C&R on April 1, 1890. Most of the line is now the Norfolk Southern Railway New Castle District, although its southernmost portion became part of the Indiana and Ohio Railway Oasis Subdivision.
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The Little Miami Railroad reached the village c. 1845. A post office called Oregon was established in 1846, and the name was changed to Oregonia in 1882. [4] The post office has since been consolidated with the Lebanon post office. Today, Oregonia is a stop on the Little Miami Bike Trail which follows the former train route along the Little ...
The sign advertises fried chicken and tostones. The irresistible aroma drifts from one of the small businesses in Little Santo Domingo in a slice of Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood.