Ohio Southern Railroad is a railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It begins in

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along the intersections of Ohio Central Railroad and

Columbus and Ohio River Railroad The Columbus & Ohio River Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. state of Ohio owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The main line, formerly part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Panhandle," was acquired from Conrail in 1992. It begins in Columbus along C ...

which are both also owned by Genesee & Wyoming. The other end of the line is in New Lexington, Ohio, with trackage rights on the Kanawha River Railroad (formerly Norfolk Southern) to

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. The company was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in 2008 as part of its purchase of the

Ohio Central Railroad System The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio, the system operates of track divided among 10 subsidiary r ...

References

External links

Ohio Southern Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
*https://web.archive.org/web/20050922213322/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Stories/DT%26I-TheRailroadThatWentNoPlacePart1.htm *http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/train_maps/cd3/74a.html Ohio railroads Genesee & Wyoming {{Ohio-transport-stub