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The Ohio River Subdivision is a specific portion of a railroad system that runs along the Ohio River, owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line runs from Wheeling southwesterly along the east (left) shore of the Ohio River to Huntington [2] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line. [3] [4]
The Wheeling Heritage Trails are two trails in Wheeling, West Virginia. [1] The Ohio River Trail is a 14-mile (23 km) long mixed use rail trail along the Ohio River, while the Wheeling Creek Trail follows Wheeling Creek from downtown Wheeling to Elm Grove.
The W&P Subdivision is a rail line between Washington, Pennsylvania (formerly ran until Wheeling, West Virginia), and Hazelwood, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Formerly operated by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and later CSX Transportation, this line is now operated by Allegheny Valley Railroad.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WE) is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the areas of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. It took its name from the former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway , most of which it bought from the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1990.
The railroad of The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company, herein called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in Ohio and West Virginia. The owned mileage consists of two main lines and various branch lines and a terminal property at Cleveland, Ohio.
On August 21, 1871, the Valley Railroad Company was incorporated, with the intention of running trains from Cleveland to Akron, Middlebury, and Canton, rivaling the nearby Ohio and Erie Canal. [5] [6] Construction of the railroad's right-of-way began, but following the Panic of 1873, a lack of funding halted the project again. [5]
A new regional railroad reused the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway name in 1990 when it acquired most of the former W&LE from the N&W. At the end of 1944, W&LE operated 507 miles of road and 1003 miles of track; that year it reported 2371 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 0.002 million passenger-miles.
[3] [4] The rail lines on the western banks of the river belong to the Norfolk Southern Railway and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway's River Subdivision. [5] [6] The American Automobile Association considers the stretch of I-470 though Ohio to be a scenic highway due to its natural beauty. [7] View east along I-470 past the CR 91/CR 1 exit in ...