Lorain & West Virginia Railway:The Lorain & West Virginia Railway based in Wellington, Ohio operates on trackage originally built by the railroad of the same name, which opened between Wellington and Lorain in 1906. It later came under the Wheeling & Lake Erie banner, and then the Nickel Pla...
An outlet to the west via the Erie was obtained through contract with the Albany and Susquehanna, a road planned and partially built as a six-foot gage. A third rail to accommodate standard gage cars was laid over 120 miles of track from Albany to Nineyah, N.Y. Robert S. Hone, coal...