Deer Creek Tunnel
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Line | Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad |
| Location | Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°07′01″N 84°29′56″W / 39.11688°N 84.499026°W |
| Operation | |
| Owner | Conrail |
The Deer Creek Tunnel is an incomplete and abandoned double-track
broad gauge Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad, but ceased in 1855[1]
due to lack of funds, and was never restarted.
The Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad was incorporated in February 1847 as the Dayton, Lebanon and Deerfield Railroad, and renamed Dayton, Springboro, Lebanon and Cincinnati Railroad in February 1848, Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad in February 1849, and Cincinnati Railway Tunnel Company in January 1872. The
Penn Central Company when Conrail
took over that company's profitable rail assets in 1976.
Deer Creek
Deer Creek was a stream adjacent to the tunnel project in the valley between Mount Auburn and
References
- ISBN 9781596298958. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
- ^ Greve, Charles Theodore (1904). Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens, Volume 1. Biographical Publishing Company. p. 22. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
- ^ Greve, Charles Theodore (1904). Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens, Volume 1. Biographical Publishing Company. p. 14. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
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