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Chesapeake and Ohio K-4 2-8-4 "Kanawha" No. 2716.It was built by Alco in 1943, and it spent seventeen years on the C&O pulling heavy freight trains until it was removed from the C&O's active list in 1956, and the railroad donated the locomotive to the Kentucky Railway Museum three years later.
Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia Railway: C&O: 1886 1887 Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad: Ohio River and Charleston Railway of Kentucky: C&O: 1894 1902 Lexington and Big Sandy Railway: Ohio Valley Railroad: IC: 1880 1886 Ohio Valley Railway: Ohio Valley Railway: IC: 1886 1897 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Ohio Valley Coal ...
Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad, oldest railroad west of the Mississippi [1] Port of LA Waterfront Red Car, a rebuilt part of the original Pacific Electric Railway system (Closed in 2015) Poway–Midland Railroad; Sierra Railway - Railtown 1897 State Historic Park; Red Car Trolley; Redwood Valley Railway; Roaring Camp & Big Trees ...
Elijah Anderson, a free man of color, was one of the most active Underground Railroad Conductors in the Ohio River Valley throughout the 1840s and 1850s. While on a mission to Kentucky, Anderson ...
The earliest predecessor of the Hocking Valley was the Mineral Railroad, incorporated in April 1864 to build from Athens in the rich Hocking Valley to Columbus. [2] The company changed its name to the Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad in June 1867, shortly after construction began at Columbus, [3] and the line opened for business from Columbus to Lancaster on January 20, 1869, Logan on ...
Fun with the Family Kentucky, 2nd: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids. Globe Pequot. ISBN 0-7627-3490-6. Hay, Melba Porter (2002). Roadside History: A Guide to Kentucky Highway Markers. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-916968-29-4. Herr, Kincaid A. (2000). The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963. University Press of Kentucky.
Donated to the Kentucky Railway Museum of New Haven, Kentucky in 1959, No. 2716 has been restored to operation in excursion service twice since its retirement from the C&O, first in 1981 for the Southern Railway's steam program until 1982, and again in 1996 for a few brief excursions for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) in New ...
The Filson produces two quarterly publications: Ohio Valley History and The Filson news magazine. A collaboration of the Filson Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, and the University of Cincinnati, Ohio Valley History is a quarterly journal of the history and culture of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South.