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 ...

Nickel Plate Road Nos. 765 and 358 celebrate Wheeling & Lake Erie’s anniversary with both locomotives returned to the Indiana Northeastern.

H.F. Carleton, Master Commissioner of the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railroad ... then transferred his interest to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Road, thus consolidating the two properties.

The dinky, little, 512-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad that connects West Virginia coal fields with Lake Erie ports caused a petty flurry on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Someone ...

The first act of violence in this vicinity since the mining strike was inaugurated was committed at 3 o'clock this morning, when a small bridge on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Road, between the ...

"And the Underground Railroad station was there, and on Howell's whole 45 acres, from 1811 to 1836." The routes to Canada from Ford Station Emma Howell's land provided easy access to Lake Erie.

Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) and Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company (W&LE) accepted Railway Age’s 2024 Short Line and Regional Railroads of the Year Awards at the American Short Line and ...