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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 and Mining Company: IC: 1886 1888 Ohio Valley Railway: Ohio Valley Railroad and Mining Company: IC: 1882 1886 Ohio Valley Coal and Mining Company: Olympia and Owingsville Railway: 1916 1918 N/A
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.
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 ...
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (For NKP 765 excursion trips, future) Hesston Steam Museum (For Hesston and Galena Creek excursions) Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum; Indiana Railway Museum; National New York Central Railroad Museum; Ohio River Scenic Railway; Whitewater Valley Railroad; Nickel Plate Express
The current route's origins can be traced to April 1864, when the Mineral Railroad was chartered to build a railroad line between Columbus and Athens, a distance of about 72 miles. Little was done until 1867 when the Mineral Railroad was renamed the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad. The line was completed in sections between 1868 and 1870 ...
The Wooster-Wayne Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a free program on Ohio and the Underground Railroad at the Orrville Public Library 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11.
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.
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