Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered in Ohio on February 24 and in Pennsylvania on April 11, 1848, to build from Allegheny City (annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907) west to Crestline, Ohio, on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. It was organized on June 15 with William Robinson Jr. as president,[1] and construction began on July 4, 1849. The first section, from Allegheny City west to New Brighton, opened July 30, 1851.

Erie and Kalamazoo RR

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he Erie and Kalamazoo was incorporated April 22, 1833, under special act of the Territory of Michigan, now the State of Michigan, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from Toledo, then claimed to be within the Territory of Michigan, to the headwaters of the Kalamazoo River in that Territory.

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