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The Ohio River & Western Railroad was a 112-mile long (180 km) narrow gauge railway that was incorporated in 1875 and operated from 1877 or 1878 till 1931. The railroad was located in southeastern Ohio. The line ran from Bellaire (east point) to Zanesville (west end). The Ohio River and Western Railroad began construction as the Bellaire and ...
Antwerp station is a historic former train station in the village of Antwerp in the far western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Built in 1880 by the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway, [1] it is a primarily wooden structure with weatherboarded walls. [2] Its roof features a distinctively large overhang. [3]
Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway: Ohio and Indiana State Line Railroad: NYC: 1880 1881 Ohio, Indiana and Pacific Railway: Ohio, Indiana and Western Railway: NYC: 1887 1890 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: Ohio and Kanawha Railway: NYC: 1886 1886 Kanawha and Ohio Railway: Ohio and Kentucky Bridge Company: C&O: 1886 1886
The Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad leased two smaller Ohio railroads on January 1, 1864. The larger road to be leased was the 35-mile (56 km) Niles and New Lisbon Railroad, which the C&M obtained access to for 90 years. [87]
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in 1827, and the "Laying ...
[1] [page needed] The line was converted to a standard gauge by 1880 and renamed the Ohio Southern Railroad in 1881. [1] [page needed] From Jeffersonville, branch lines were started towards Columbus to the northeast and Cincinnati to the southwest, but never completed. [1] [page needed] By September 1893, the Ohio Southern had reached north to ...
The W&LE was operated as the "Wheeling and Lake Erie District" of the NKP. In 1964, the Nickel Plate combined with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W), bringing the W&LE into N&W and, after the N&W-Southern Railway merger, Norfolk Southern. [1] Throughout this period, the railroad generally remained unchanged.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WE) is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the areas of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. It took its name from the former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway , most of which it bought from the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1990.