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  2. Railway Tie Association - Wikipedia

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    Railroad development kept pace with the expanding frontier in the United States after the American Civil War, creating a burgeoning need for new railroad ties. Every mile of track required about 2,500-3,500 crossties. Trains became heavier and faster and the railroads found it was less expensive to add more ties per mile than to buy heavier ...

  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Zanesville and ...

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    The Zanesville and Western was incorporated October 17, 1902, under the general laws of Ohio. It succeeded in title to 47.18 per cent of the rolling stock, materials, and supplies and all that part of the railroad of The Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking Railroad Company, which had been sold at foreclosure sale and described as lying south and east of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railroad ...

  4. Railroad tie - Wikipedia

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    A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...

  5. Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The sale was intended to give the railroad a new source of revenue, but the C&M barely used the canal. The canal's value was in its right of way , and the C&M later sold most of the canal to the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad , which filled it in and used it as the bed for its track.

  6. Galesburg Yard - Wikipedia

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    [3] A production facility for railroad ties has been located at the southern end of the classification yard since 1908, where the wooden ties for a large part of the CB&Q rail network were processed, impregnated, and stored. The annual processing volume here was 1.5 million ties, and the plant is now managed by Koppers. [4] [5] Roundhouse in 1927

  7. Category:Defunct Ohio railroads - Wikipedia

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    C. Carey Short Line; Celina, Van Wert and State Line Extension of the Columbus and North-Western Railway; Central Columbiana and Pennsylvania Railway

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