came across that railroad name in the legal ads of the paper.also the columbus and lake michigan railroad.seems someone wants a 50 foot wide strip of land here in defiance.just 2 of the many ghost railroads here in ohio.
stay safe
joe
One can never accuse the promoters of the earliest railroad projects of not dreaming big, a notion that lasted into the promotion of interurban railroads in the early 20th century. It would be interesting to find out if these were early steam railroads that were absorbed by B&O or interurbans that never got built.
You’re too late Carl !
http://www.delphos-ohio.com/history/Holdgreve/interurban_railroad.htm
The Lima - Fort Wayne line had through freight service from handling parts from GM factories in Muncie and Anderson to Detroit via Indiana Railroad, the Lima - Fort Wayne line, the Cincinnati and Lake Erie, and the Detroit - Toledo and Michigan United. It is discussed in the CERA Indiana Railroad bulletin.
Oh yeah, Dale–kick a guy when he’s down! First crack I get at the forum today, and the question’s already been answered…
Anyway, the name in the title was the predecessor company to the Columbus & Lake Michigan. I guess they realized there would be a slight problem once they got there.
The line is very noticeable in the Gomer area, there’s an electric power line on it and it is easy to pick it out from U. S. 30. Drive into Gomer on the old Lincoln Highway and it runs into the eastside of town. It’s also easy to pick out at Kalida but not as easy at Continental, where it crossed both the Nickel Plate and the Cloverleaf in a triangle, crossing the NKP and then the Cloverleaf just west of the main street, as near as I could ever determine.
I found a little more on the northern projection of this line–obviously never built. There was a charter for the Columbus & Lake Michigan as early as 1888, and it was taken over by the Columbus, Lima & Milwaukee a few months later (so the C&LM name was actually used twice, but the first time was well ahead of the fact, and probably only applied to the projected line within Michigan).
The line originally would have continued northwest, hitting the northeast corner of Indiana, entering Michigan in Hillsdale County, and ending somewhere in Saugatuck Township (probably Saugatuck itself) near Lake Michigan. The CL&M charter mentioned that the line would go from the Ohio state line to Saugatuck, so the route was evidently changed, well ahead of the fact, to exclude Indiana.
wow thanks for all the info.I guess its safe to say the lady can get her land.
stay safe
joe