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The Little Miami Railroad was a railway of southwestern Ohio, running from the eastern side of Cincinnati to Springfield, Ohio. By merging with the Columbus and Xenia Railroad in 1853, it created the first through-rail route from the important manufacturing city of Cincinnati to the state capital, Columbus .
From December 1, 1853, to November 29, 1868, the Little Miami Railroad and the Columbus and Xenia operated their property jointly. The property of the Columbus and Xenia was leased to the Little Miami Railroad on November 30, 1868, through an agreement dated March 18, 1869, for a period extending to November 31, 1967, renewable forever.
The southern part of the line was built by the Little Miami Railroad, the second railroad chartered in Ohio, from 1837 to 1848. In 1870, it came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad. [2] The northern part was built by the Cincinnati and Richmond Railroad in 1888, and came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1928. [3]
The town of Lebanon, Ohio, laid out in 1802, was bypassed by the Miami and Erie Canal in 1830; the branch Warren County Canal to Lebanon was wrecked by flooding in 1848. The Little Miami Railroad (1846, later a Pennsylvania line) and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (1851, later a B&O line) followed the valleys of the Little and Great Miami rivers (the M&E Canal had used the latter ...
The Columbus and Xenia Railroad (C&X) was chartered on March 12, 1844. [2] Among its early leaders was William Dennison, the future Governor of Ohio. [3] [4]The Little Miami Railroad linked Cincinnati and Xenia in 1845, [5] and the C&X was intended to link Columbus to Xenia—creating the first rail link between Columbus and Cincinnati.
Talks about the high-speed rail project began when I was a child – I remember them as early as 1989 – with proposals of magnetic levitating trains and estimated costs of $2bn (£1.6bn) in ...
The property of the Columbus and Xenia was operated by its own organization from the date the road was opened for operation, February 22, 1850, to November 30, 1853; jointly by the Columbus and Xenia and the Little Miami Railroad from December 1, 1853, to November 20, 18GS; by the Little Miami Railroad from November 30, 1868, to November 30, 1869; by The Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis ...
That line opened in 1888, running southeast to the Little Miami Railroad at Rendcomb Junction, east of Cincinnati. The CR&C and R&M were merged into the C&R on April 1, 1890. Most of the line is now the Norfolk Southern Railway New Castle District, although its southernmost portion became part of the Indiana and Ohio Railway Oasis Subdivision.