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Holly Springs, Brownsville and Ohio Railroad - 1878 began a narrow-gauge line between Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Friendship via Brownsville. Grading was done between the last two places, and 12 miles (19 km) of track laid from the latter. [214] The intention was to build through Union City to opposite Cairo, Illinois, on the Ohio River. [215]
North Western Ohio Railroad: NYC: 1871 1871 Chicago and Canada Southern Railway: Northern Indiana Railroad: NYC: 1851 1855 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad: Northern Ohio Railway: ACY: 1895 1944 Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad: Northwestern Ohio Railway: PRR: 1876 1891 Toledo, Walhonding Valley and Ohio Railroad: Nypano ...
Trains continued to run until the line was abandoned and the rails pulled up in 1988. The area remains accessible and the old roadbed provides access to the tunnel. Plans to turn the area into a formal rail trail, the Moonville Rail-Trail, have been implemented. Six and a half miles of trail are currently open, with nine and a half miles, plus ...
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the world.
The Pioneer and Fayette Railroad (PF) was a historic railroad that operated in Ohio. The P&F began operations in November 1934 using abandoned Toledo and Western Railroad trackage between Pioneer and Fayette, Ohio. [1] The P&F connected with the Wabash at Franklin Junction near Alvordton, Ohio.
The B&O opened the double track line in 1904, and it included a tunnel and a bridge, both of which are still in existence. The tunnel passes through Knobly Mountain and is slightly less than 1 mile (1.6 km) in length. The cutoff was later reduced to single track, and ultimately abandoned in the early 1970s by the Chessie System, successor to ...
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 ...