Hocking Valley Railway

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The Hocking Valley Railway (

Hocking Valley near Athens. The company became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway system in 1910, and the line between Toledo and Columbus continues to see trains as CSX Transportation's Columbus Subdivision. Portions of the main line south of Columbus are now operated by the Indiana and Ohio Railway and Hocking Valley Scenic Railway
.

At the end of 1925, HV operated 349 miles of road on 881 miles of track; that year it reported 2614 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 25 million passenger-miles.

History

The earliest predecessor of the Hocking Valley was the Mineral Railroad, incorporated in April 1864 to build from

Murray City (1882), and Coalgate (1893), and along Brush Fork to New Pittsburg (1877–78).[8][9]

The Columbus and Toledo Railroad was incorporated in May 1872 to connect its namesake cities on an eastern route through

Trackage rights were acquired over the Toledo and Woodville Railroad (a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary) to reach Toledo, including a dock on the Maumee River to handle Hocking Valley coal and iron ore.[9][12]

The final piece of the system was incorporated in March 1870 as the Gallipolis, McArthur and Columbus Railroad, which would build from

Pomeroy was completed in January 1881.[9][13]

The three companies merged in August 1881 to form the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway, which stretched across the state from Toledo to Pomeroy. A short extension near Toledo was built in 1890, connecting to the

trackage rights to Columbus, and in 1927 a separate line to Columbus was completed.[16] When the C&O acquired control of the Pere Marquette Railway in 1929, the Hocking Valley served as its connection to the rest of the system.[17] Finally, the Hocking Valley was merged into the C&O in April 1930.[18]

A small branch railroad was organized in 1903 as the Athens, Amesville and Chauncey Railway. Its trackage was 3.65 miles in 1907, and 5.99 miles in 1908. It was built expressly to service coal mines in the Sugar Creek valley north of Athens, Ohio, and connected to the Hocking Valley Railway mainline just northwest of Athens. It was built by coal interests, but operated by the Hocking Valley Railway, and was merged into it in 1911. This line never ventured anywhere near Amesville or Chauncey, and did not even technically connect to Athens. After the merger, it was known as the Sugar Creek Branch.

See also

  • Crush, Texas

References

  1. ^ The Official Railway Equipment Register. Railway Equipment and Publication Company. June 1917. p. 141 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Miller 2007, pp. 12–13.
  3. ^ Miller 2007, p. 16.
  4. ^ Miller 2007, p. 20.
  5. ^ Miller 2007, p. 23.
  6. ^ Miller 2007, p. 26.
  7. ^ Ohio Secretary of State (1876). Annual Report for the Year 1875. Columbus Printing Company, State Printers. p. 198.
  8. ^ Miller 2007, p. 27.
  9. ^ a b c d Interstate Commerce Commission, 29 Val. Rep. 321 (1929), Valuation Docket No. 904: Hocking Valley Railway Company et al.
  10. ^ Miller 2007, p. 36.
  11. ^ Miller 2007, pp. 39–41.
  12. ^ Miller 2007, pp. 44–45.
  13. ^ Miller 2007, pp. 53–61.
  14. ^ The Manual of Statistics: Stock Exchange Hand-Book. Commercial Newspaper Company. 1920. p. 1032 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ "New World Atlas and Gazetteer: The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad". P.F. Collier and Son. 1922 – via Rootsweb.
  16. ^ Dixon, Thomas W. Jr. (July–August 2002). "C&O Bridge Signs". Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine – via FindArticles.com.
  17. ^ Baer, Christopher T. (July 2004). "PRR Chronology: 1929" (PDF).
  18. ^ Miller 2007, p. 181.
  • Miller, Edward H. (2007). The Hocking Valley Railway. Ohio University Press.
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