Pedestrians and bicyclists can now explore the 2.25-mile trail that passes through the restored railroad tunnel, which lies over 700 feet below the Blue Ridge Mountains at Rockfish Gap.

It was created reusing the circa 1909 rail trestle beams of the old Monon Railroad that once stood there. Tom Wichlinski, vice chairman of the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission ...

“(At one point) there were 40 hotels around the lake.” According to Oostman’s book, the Monon Railroad laid tracks for the rail line along the western lakeshore in 1882. Lake ice was ...

The WHEELING & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD, planned to run from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to ports on Lake Erie, was founded in 1871. By 1877 only 13.5 mi. of track had been ...