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  2. Cleveland railroad history - Wikipedia

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    Cleveland railroading began in the mid-1800's, when the predecessors of the New York Central and Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago, & St. Louis) built two major lines along Lake Erie that handled major traffic per day, and had major yards on them at this point. The line that became part of the New York Central, now CSX east of Cleveland, was ...

  3. Streetcars in Cleveland - Wikipedia

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    The streetcar lines in Cleveland, Ohio were operated by the Cleveland Railway, which was formed in 1910 with the merger of two companies. The Cleveland Railway converted a few streetcar lines in the 1930s, but the onset of World War II stopped any further conversions.

  4. Ohio Railway Museum - Wikipedia

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    Ohio Railway Museum. Coordinates: 40.09308°N 83.00325°W. PCC streetcar 450 operating on the museum line. The Ohio Railway Museum [1] ( reporting mark ORMX) [2] is a railway museum that was founded in 1948. It is located in Worthington, Ohio, near Columbus, Ohio.

  5. Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad - Wikipedia

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    187.8 miles (302.2 km) (1862) The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (CC&C) was a railroad that ran from Cleveland to Columbus in the U.S. state of Ohio in the United States. Chartered in 1836, it was moribund for the first 10 years of its existence.

  6. 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.

  7. Erie Lackawanna Railway - Wikipedia

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    1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 3,189 miles (5,132 kilometers) The Erie Lackawanna Railway ( reporting mark EL ), known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route".

  8. Euclid Beach Park - Wikipedia

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    Closed. September 28, 1969. ( 1969-09-28) General manager. Jonson McBronson. Euclid Beach Park was an amusement park located on the southern shore of Lake Erie in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, which operated from 1895 to 1969. Originally incorporated by investors from Cleveland and patterned after New York 's Coney Island, the ...

  9. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington , it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of ...

  10. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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    Website. riderta .com. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but historically and locally referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, with a ridership of 22,431,500, or about ...

  11. Blue Line (RTA Rapid Transit) - Wikipedia

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    Show interactive map Show diagram map Show all. The Blue Line (formerly known as the Moreland Line and the Van Aken Line) is a light rail line of the RTA Rapid Transit system in Cleveland and Shaker Heights, Ohio, running from Tower City Center downtown, then east and southeast to Warrensville Center Blvd near Chagrin Blvd. 2.6 miles (4.2 km ...