The Newburg & South Shore Railroad is a railroad that operates in

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, in the United States on of track. It opened in 1904 to service steel mills in the Cleveland area.

History

The company was incorporated in 1899 as a subsidiary of the

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, a steel firm with several plants scattered throughout Cleveland. Construction began that year, and was complete in 1904. The line ran from the company's Central Furnaces (the area roughly bounded today by the

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, Interstate 490, and Broadway Avenue) and ran briefly south before crossing the Cuyahoga River at the now-demolished Jefferson Avenue Bridge. The track ran through the company's plant on the west side of the Cuyahoga, and recrossed the river near the now-demolished Clark Avenue Bridge. The line ran south (passing over Campbell Road and under Harvard Avenue) before turning east. After an at-grade crossing of E. 49th Street and the bridging of E. 71st Street, the tracks turned north at E. 76th Street into the company Newburgh Works, terminating at Aetna Road. American Steel and Wire merged with a number of other steel companies to form

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in 1901. U.S. Steel consolidated the NSR with another subsidiary railroad, the

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, in 1951. Traffic on the road declined significantly after World War II, and largely ceased when U.S. Steel closed its Cuyahoga Works in 1984. The NSR sold of its main line to the

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, and then closed on June 30, 1986. In July 1986, the track was sold to the Chicago West Pullman Transportation Co., now known as

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References

External links

*{{official, http://omnitrax.com/our-company/our-railroads/newburgh-south-shore-railroad-llc/ Ohio railroads Rail transportation in Cleveland