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Some of the capital was gained from a merger with the Great Western Railroad of Ohio in 1851. On August 26, 1853, the line opened from Crestline west to Bucyrus, and a continuation west to Forest opened in early January 1854. On June 10 the line opened west to Delphos, and on October 31 the full line to Fort Wayne was completed, opening the ...
The line runs from Rankin north through Pittsburgh to West Pittsburg (near New Castle) [1] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, once the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad. The line begins in Rankin at the Pittsburgh Subdivision, almost directly under the Rankin Bridge, and runs along the east (right) shore of the Monongahela River.
Northern Ohio Railway: Pittsburgh, Akron and Western Railway: ACY: 1887 1890 Pittsburgh, Akron and Western Railroad: Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1897 1949 Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad: Pittsburgh and Chicago Railroad: ACY: 1882 1887 Cleveland and Western Railroad: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ...
The Pittsburgh and Western Railroad (reporting mark PW) was a nineteenth-century, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad connecting Pittsburgh with coal supplies and the oil field around Titusville, Pennsylvania. [1] Its right-of way formed the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west from Pittsburgh. It was reorganized in 1889 under ...
The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad opened the line from Allegheny (Pittsburgh) west to Crestline in 1851, [2] 1852, [3] and 1853; [4] the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge connected it to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Main Line in downtown Pittsburgh in 1857. [5] From Crestline west to Fort Wayne, the Ohio and Indiana Railroad opened the line in 1853 [4 ...
The Cincinnati, Cambridge and Chicago Short Line Railway was incorporated in Indiana on January 25, 1853, to build from New Castle southeast via Cambridge to the Ohio state line; the Cincinnati, New Castle and Michigan Railroad was incorporated April 11 of the same year to build northwest from New Castle towards St. Joseph, Michigan. The two ...
Ohio River Railroad from 1901; Pittsburgh Junction Railroad from 1902; Pittsburgh and Western Railroad from 1902. This was originally a narrow gauge system which was standard gauged from 1883 to 1911. It formed the main B&O line west from Pittsburgh. The line passed the Mars Train Station in Mars, Pennsylvania, northwest of Pittsburgh.
The B&O line was originally built in the 1880s by the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad after the Erie line had been established, and is known to locals as the "lower tracks". Kent's first B&O station was a box car located adjacent to the south side of the Main Street Bridge just below the Erie depot.