Cincinnati And Muskingum Valley Railroad
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Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad was a railway line which ran from
Trinway, Ohio Trinway is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cass Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, Cass Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, Muskingum County, Ohio, United States, in the east-central part of the state. ...
, to
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, and connected with the Steubenville and Indiana Railway at Trinway. The railroad depended on trackage rights with the Little Miami Railroad at Morrow to connect to Cincinnati. Built in 1866 by
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, this railway was in operation until the 1970s. The C&MV merged with the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railroad in 1911. After the 1950s the line no longer carried passenger service but carried only freight.


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* Defunct Ohio railroads Railway companies established in 1898 Railway companies disestablished in 1911 Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad {{US-rail-transport-stub