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The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming . Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio , the system operates 500 miles (800 km) of track divided among 10 subsidiary railroads.
The year 2004 saw a huge event in Ohio Central's steam operations when "Trainfestival 2004" took place from July 30 to August 1, 2004, in Dennison, Ohio. It was a major event featuring all of their steam locomotive, some historic diesel locomotives as well as rolling stock and many more rail-related activities.
Baldwin Locomotive Works 1903 Display From the Strasburg Rail Road, No. 1187 was recently acquired from Strasburg from an auction on July 15, 2020, and left Strasburg on July 31, 2020. [13] [14] [7] 1190 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: 0-6-0 American Locomotive Company 1904 Display [7] 1278: Canadian Pacific Railway: 4-6-2 Canadian Locomotive ...
Built by Baldwin in 1918, No. 4500 was the very first USRA standard 2-8-2 locomotive ever built, and it operated on the B&O's Ohio Division mainly hauling freight until it was retired from service in 1958, but not before being renumbered to 300 in order to make way for four-digit numbered diesel locomotives. In 1960, the locomotive was donated ...
C&O's "Big Mike" #2705, a 2-8-4 Class K-4 "Kanawha" built by Alco in 1943, at the B&O Railroad Museum in 2008. Class K was used for 2-8-2 Mikado and 2-8-4 Kanawha types Chesapeake and Ohio class K ex-Hocking Valley Railway 2-8-2; Chesapeake and Ohio class K-1 2-8-2; Chesapeake and Ohio class K-2 2-8-2; Chesapeake and Ohio classes K-3 and K-3-A ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's K-4 class were a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives purchased during and shortly after World War II. [1] Unlike many other railroads in the United States, the C&O chose to nickname this class "Kanawha", after the river in West Virginia, rather than "Berkshire", after the region in New England.
Two soldiers from Ohio regiments who participated in a Civil War locomotive chase were finally awarded the Medal of Honor.
Two Pittsburgh and Ohio Central locomotives in 2007. The Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad (reporting mark POHC) is a short-line railroad operating 35 miles (56 km) of track over the Chartiers Branch in southwest Pennsylvania. It also operated a small portion of the former Conrail Panhandle Route between Carnegie and Walkers Mill. This ...