NKP Depot: (
Satellite)
Pennsy Depot: (Satellite?)
NKP Depot
Roger Smith
posted three photos with the comment:
1882 Connotton Valley RR, Bedford, OH
Today's Wheeling & Lake Erie was re-born in 1990
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ClevelandHistorical
"Wheeling & Lake Erie locomotive No. 2117 stops at the Wheeling & Lake Erie Depot in Bedford in 1919. The depot was used for passengers until 1938. The Wheeling & Lake Erie tracks continue to be used, though the depot is no longer an active stop. Source: Dick Squire, Bedford Village Views: Selections from Around the Town, with the Village Observer, 1982-1992 (Bedford, Ohio: Bedford Historical Society, 1992): 214. Date: 1919"
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Pennsy Depot
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ClevelandHistorical
"On February 14, 1861, Abraham Lincoln journeyed through Bedford on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad (C&P) while on his way from Springfield, Illinois to Washington for his inauguration. In this photograph, the president-elect stands on the back of the train waving to residents at the Bedford C&P Depot. Source: Bedford Historical Society" |
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This topo map confirms the Cleveland & Pittsburgh became the Pennsy and the Connotton Valley became the LE&W.
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| 1903/39 Cleveland Quad @ 62,500 |
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