Delphos to Dayton

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States: Ohio
Railroads: B&O, CH&D, TC&StL

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Map submitted by Aaron M.

This abandoned railway line was built starting in 1879 as a narrow-gauge railroad, the Toledo, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad. It was completed by 1883. It was bought by the CH&D, who then converted it to standard gauge.

In 1904, the CH&D extended the railroad north to intersect another one of CH&D's lines, the Cincinnati, Findlay, and Fort Wayne Railroad, that ran from Findlay to Ft. Wayne, Indiana (also abandoned, see Fort Wayne, IN to Findlay, OH.) In 1916, the Baltimore and Ohio bought the railroad, and removed the connection to the CF&FW.

In 1923, the B&O abandoned the rest of the line. Today, because it was abandoned early in the twentieth century, not much remains, and most of the right of way has been reclaimed by agriculture.

Thanks to Aaron M. for contributing information about this route.

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There is still evidence of the line if you know where to look. Through the Englewood area there is high power lines running on the right of way. A lot of neighborhoods built over the right of way but the power lines follow the route.

Behind O.R. Edgington Elementary School there is a treeline/fenceline that shows the right of way. Back in the 1980's there was a remnant of an abondoned sign there.

Brian Spirito
Englewood, OH
6/8/2012

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I recently read a written history of Englewood, OH (where I grew up) that stated this line was sold by the CH&D in 1922 to the Ringling Bros. and was little used until it's abandonment in 1927.

I know of a few stations that have been converted to houses. There is one in Union on Martindale Rd. next to the basketball courts. Another is in Pleasant Hill next to the grain elevator. North of Union there is Pigeye creek and there are still some bridge abutments in place on private property where the railroad came through.

Brian S.
Troy, OH
5/26/2013

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Brian, According to the information that I found, this line was purchased by the Ringling Bros. in 1917 when the C.H.& D. was sold due to foreclosure. It operated as the Dayton, Toledo and Chicago until it folded in 1922. The iron rails were taken up for scrap, sometime in 1923.

This line is of particular interest to me since it is pretty much the reason for my hometown's (Osgood, Ohio)existence.

Dale
Maria Stein, OH
6/18/2013

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