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Re: (erielack) EL around Youngstown
Mike,
I had thought that the relationship between the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley and the Atlantic and Great Western had predated the formation of the NYPANO, with a third-rail laid on the C&MV to allow A&GW access to Cleveland. While surfing around for proof of that, I found this at the following site:
http://www.clevelandmemory.com/SpecColl/bmc/bmcchap4.html
With discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, and the need to transport it to markets, the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad was founded. Chartered in 1848, the right-of-way for a broad-gauge road was acquired, and the railroad reached Youngstown by way of Warren in 1857. Transporting coal by rail from the Warren area put the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal and important tributary of the Ohio-Erie Canal, out of business. The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, imposing in name only, leased the Cleveland and Mahoning in 1863 for a direct rail line to New York City.
The railroad crossed the Cuyahoga River at Broadway, adjacent to the Standard Oil Company, and followed Mill Creek and the Kinsgbury River valleys into Cleveland. The docks for the transfer of the coal to lake freighters were situated along an extensive river frontage north of Columbus Road. For years a coal loader operated under the High Level Bridge, to serve the freighters that were coal-fired.
Continuing northward, the railroad crossed under Detroit Street. Here may be found the oldest bridge in Cleveland still standing and in use. It was originally built for the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad Company and dates from 1853. The bridge-support consists of skewed double stone arches, each 15 feet wide, with the tracks on a curve. Both arches are about 17 feet from the top of the arch to the ground. The overall length is about
55 feet center-to-center of abutments. Curving under the Superior Viaduct, the railroad continues to the dock still referred to as NYPANO Docks, one of the railroad’s many names.
After the Civil War, the Erie Railroad leased the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad to get to Chicago. The latter went into receivership in 1880 and was recognized as the New York, Pennsylvania and Northern Ohio Railroad (NYPANO) and leased again to the Erie in 1883. In 1896 the Erie acquired the NYPANO by stock purchase. In 1938 the Erie was in financial trouble and bought the Cleveland and Mahoning stock to save rentals of the leased line.
The Atlantic and Great Western obtained track rights from the C.C.C. and St. Louis line and ran passenger trains to the station under the Detroit-Superior Bridge, now occupied by "Diamond Jim’s restaurant. Why the Atlantic and Great Western did not enter the Union Station is not known.
It is interesting to note that General John H. Devereux, a Clevelander, was credited with saving the Union during the Civil War, by virtue of being Superintendent of Military Railroads. As General Superintendent of the C. and P., President of the L.S. and M.S. in 1869, President of the A. and G.W. and of the Big Four in 1876, he had excellent opportunity to weld four lines into one unit, one hundred years ago, and he failed to act. Deveraux is also interesting because of a collection of engineering drawings which he made in the 1850’s and 1860’s. This collection is in the Western Reserve Historical Society. The drawings include many bridge structures, both iron and masonry. One drawing is labeled "Cuyahoga Bridge", a Howe truss, but its location has never been established.
So the lease started as early as 1863, and was only renewed in 1880 when the A&GW was reorganized as the NYPANO.
Jeff Larson
ELHS#2683
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Subject: RE: (erielack) EL around Youngstown
From the Erie Railroad history page on the ELHS site:
In 1874 the Erie leased the Atlantic & Great Western,
which had been opened 10 years earlier between
Salamanca, N. Y., on the Erie, and Dayton, Ohio. The
A&GW entered Cincinnati over the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton, which laid a third rail to accommodate
A&GW's broad gauge equipment. At Cincinnati the A&GW
connected with the broad gauge Ohio & Mississippi to
St. Louis. (The two connecting roads later became part
of Baltimore & Ohio.) The lease to the Erie did not
last long. A&GW entered receivership and was
reorganized as the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio. To
obtain access to Cleveland and Youngstown, the NYP&O
leased the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley in 1880. The
Erie leased the Nypano (as it was known) in 1883,
acquired all its capital stock in 1896, and acquired
its properties in 1941.
Mike
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