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The Ohio and Indiana Railroad was chartered in Ohio on March 26, 1850, and in Indiana on January 15, 1851, to extend the line west to Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was organized July 4, 1850, and work began in February 1852. Some of the capital was gained from a merger with the Great Western Railroad of Ohio in 1851.
Operating speed. 40 mph (64 km/h) [1] The Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern Railroad (reporting mark CFE) is a short line railroad offering service from Tolleston, Indiana to Crestline, Ohio, United States over the former Fort Wayne Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It began operations in 2004 as a division of the Central Railroad of Indianapolis ...
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The Fort Wayne Line and Fort Wayne Secondary is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE), and CSX Transportation in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. The line runs from Pittsburgh, west via Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Gary, Indiana ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Length. 2,524 miles (4,062 kilometres) The Wabash Railroad (reporting mark WAB) was a Class I railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including track in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri and the province of Ontario.
Lake Erie and Western Railroad: Fort Wayne and Detroit Railroad: WAB: 1901 1901 Wabash Railroad: Fort Wayne and Eastern Railway: 1894 1894 Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Railway: Fort Wayne and Findlay Railroad: 1890 1890 Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Railroad: Fort Wayne and Illinois Railroad: NKP: 1887 1887 New York, Chicago and St. Louis ...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1856 1861 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR: 1862 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad: PLE PLE 1878 1992 Three Rivers Railway: Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad: PL&W ...
Grading had been done from Wabash southeast to the Ohio state line; portions were later sold to the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad and Connersville and New Castle Junction Railroad. On September 25, 1857, the Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad was chartered in Indiana to build a line from Logansport northwest to Valparaiso.
This company, a corporation of the States of Indiana and Ohio, owned on May 6, 1856, the date of its consolidation with the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company to form The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail Road Company, about 131.60 miles of single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad ...