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  2. List of Ohio railroads - Wikipedia

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    1938. Toledo and Ohio Central Railway. Electric railways. Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad. Akron and Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit Company. Blissfield Railroad. Canton and Massillon Electric Railway. Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo Traction. Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway.

  3. Cleveland Lakefront Station - Wikipedia

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    Cleveland Lakefront Station. /  41.505653°N 81.696468°W  / 41.505653; -81.696468. Cleveland Lakefront Station is an Amtrak train station at North Coast Harbor in Cleveland, Ohio. The current station was built in 1977 to provide service to the Lake Shore Limited route (New York/Boston-Chicago), which was reinstated by Amtrak via ...

  4. Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Alaska is home to two surviving narrow gauge railroads. The last surviving commercial common carrier narrow-gauge railroad in the United States was the White Pass and Yukon Route connecting Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. It ended common carrier service in 1982, but has since been partially reopened as a tourist railway.

  5. Ashtabula River railroad disaster - Wikipedia

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    January 20, 1877. The locomotive Socrates is at upper right. / 41.8785; -80.7894. The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror, the Ashtabula Bridge disaster, and the Ashtabula train disaster) was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876.

  6. List of Ohio train stations - Wikipedia

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    Buckeye Central Scenic Railroad – Hebron, Ohio (defunct; see ZWSR) [8] Byesville Scenic Railway – Byesville, Ohio [9] Byesville Station. N Cabin (C&M Crossing) Cedar Point & Lake Erie Railroad – Sandusky, Ohio [10] Main Station (Funway Station) Frontier Town Station. Boneville Station.

  7. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country ...

  8. Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad (1848–1869)

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    343.2 miles (552.3 km) (after 1867) The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad (CP&A), also known informally as the Cleveland and Erie Railroad, the Cleveland and Buffalo Railroad, and the Lake Shore Railroad, was a railway which ran from Cleveland, Ohio, to the Ohio- Pennsylvania border. Founded in 1848, the line opened in 1852.

  9. Northern Ohio and Western Railway - Wikipedia

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    Website. [1] The Northern Ohio and Western Railway ( reporting mark NOW) is a rail line owned by OmniTRAX located in Northwest Ohio. It is based in Tiffin, Ohio, and operates between Tiffin, located on CSX's Williard Subdivision, and Woodville. It originally was a Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) line that traveled from Toledo to Mansfield.