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An original lock of the Miami and Erie Canal is located on the grounds, as is a canal toll office. The transportation center vehicles include the John Quincy Adams steam locomotive (built in 1835 by the B&O Railroad and is the oldest US-built locomotive that still exists), [5] a Barney and Smith passenger car built in Dayton, a Conestoga wagon, a 1908 Stoddard-Dayton automobile, a 1915 Xenia ...
In 2005, the Dayton was moved to the Comstock History Center in Virginia City, Nevada, [9] where it was displayed until April 2018. It was then returned to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in exchange for Virginia and Truckee 4-6-0 No. 27 , which took the Dayton's place on exhibit at the Comstock History Center. [ 10 ]
Dayton is the smallest city in the United States to operate electric trolley buses still. [6] The trolley buses travel at least five miles on RTA routes serving Dayton and some neighboring suburbs. The routes include: Route 1, Route 2, Route 4, Route 7 and Route 8. Bus service to Dayton International Airport from downtown Dayton began on 11 ...
It was sold to Paramount Pictures in March 1937 for $1,250 (equivalent to $26,493 in 2023). [3] Though not rebuilt by the studio as was the Dayton (another V&T locomotive also purchased by the studio at the time), the engine was repainted and renumbered for use in motion pictures.
A trolleybus of the Oakwood Street Railway, one of multiple companies that once operated trolleybuses in Dayton, passing the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1937. The first electric trolley bus (ETB) service in Ohio began operation in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Salem Avenue-Lorain Avenue line was converted from streetcars to trolley coaches — or trolley buses, as they are most ...
The 2024 OHSAA state meet for Ohio high school track and field begins Thursday in Dayton. Here's a look at the new three-day schedule for the meet.
January 19 – The first train of Bay Area Rapid Transit's Fleet of the Future enters revenue service. [2] January 25 – Pioltello train derailment: At least three people are killed and over 100 injured in a train derailment near Milan, Italy. [3] [4] [5] January 31 – 2018 Crozet, Virginia train crash.
Jul. 6—The Dayton Air Show is fast approaching, and show leaders continue to refine traffic and parking plans in an effort to avoid the traffic hassles that tormented last year's show, when some ...