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Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza (formerly Central Union Terminal and Central Union Plaza) is the main passenger rail and intercity bus station of Toledo, Ohio.. Toledo is served by two Amtrak routes: the Floridian, which operates daily between Chicago and Miami; and the Lake Shore Limited, which operates daily between Chicago and (via two sections east of Albany) Boston and New York City.
The Toledo Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Ohio. The line runs 167.8 miles (270.0 km) from Hamilton (north of Cincinnati) north to Perrysburg (near Toledo). [1] It was originally built by predecessors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The line serves factories such as Honda, Scottslawn, and International Paper. The railroad is a portion of the former Toledo and Ohio Central Railway, beginning at Stanley Yard (near Northwood, Ohio) and dead-ending just past Columbus. It was closed in 2007 with its last train being the Q500. [1
The Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway is a non-profit 501(c)(3), and heritage railroad operating on 10 miles (16 km) of railway, ex- Norfolk and Western Railroad, née-Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad (later acquired by the Nickel Plate Road) and crosses the Maumee River on a 901 ft (275 m) bridge, which was constructed in 1916.
The owned property of the carrier, comprising 31.214 miles (50.234 km) of main-line railroad, 5.584 miles (8.987 km) of second main track, 29.735 miles (47.854 km) of yard tracks and sidings, a freight and passenger station, and certain other terminal facilities at Toledo, Ohio, was acquired partly by purchase after foreclosure proceedings, as previously explained, and partly by construction.
The Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City was reorganized in 1900 and renamed as the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. It operated 450.72 miles of line between Toledo and East St. Louis. The Clover Leaf became part of the larger New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the "Nickel Plate") on December 28, 1922, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which eventually ...
Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA) is a public transit agency that has been operating in Toledo, Ohio since 1971. TARTA services 32 bus routes [ 1 ] in and around the Toledo metropolitan area and carries approximately 2 million passengers every year.
On August 10, 1887, a TP&W excursion passenger train was involved in the Great Chatsworth train wreck near Chatsworth, Illinois. The train was bound for Niagara Falls, before it derailed at a weakened bridge, and 80 people were killed. [6] On June 21, 1970, an eastbound TP&W freight train No. 20 derailed mid-train in Crescent City, Illinois.