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Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton (1926)

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Company NameCincinnati Hamilton and Dayton (1926)
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1926
Final Year of Operation1930
TerminationAcquired
CountryUnited States (Details)
Text Credit URLLink



Company History: Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company, car #100 is seen here at the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company. Kuhlman was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century. The company was based in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1926, the former Cincinnati and Dayton Traction Company was reorganized under the new name Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton. The C&DTC right-of-way was part of the former Ohio Electric Railway's line between Dayton and Cincinnati. This new interurban company (which had no relationship with the steam railroad of the same name was headed by a former University of Penn Wharton School professor of finance, Dr. Thomas Conway, Jr., who had already been successful in reviving the interurban Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin Railroad. He ordered badly needed all steel interurban coaches and box-motor express cars, freight cars, and spent heavily to improve track and right-of-way, although the rails laid within the brick streets of the cities and towns remained a maintenance problem and were a source of constant arguments with township administrations. Conway did well at building up the CH&D freight business utilizing his new interurban freight equipment which often was operated at night. Conway believed that there was still a place for the interurban in the medium distance range of passenger traffic and long distance LCL freight, and thus conceived the idea of the CH&D. In 1930, just as the Great Depression was starting, Conway purchased then merged his profitable CH&D with interurbans Indiana, Columbus and Eastern, and the Lima-Toledo Railroad, to form the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad. Conway ordered more new equipment, including the innovative light weight high speed passenger car "Red Devils" from the Cincinnati Car Company. This new line now connected Cincinnati with Toledo, and with two other (vitally important) interurban company connections at Toledo provided through interurban passenger and freight service to Cleveland (Lake Shore Electric) and to Detroit (Eastern Michigan Railway). The Red Devils operated from Cincinnati to Detroit for a while and the Cleveland run was the longest continuous equipment interurban freight service ever provided in the United States. Each year the C&LE shipped more freight, but the only year that the C&LE was profitable was 1936. The accelerating collapse of the American economy through the 1930s led to financial losses and a steady decline in operations. When the two essential connecting interurban lines at Toledo closed due to bankruptcy, first the Detroit connection (1932) and a few years later the Cleveland connection (1938), the C&LE was doomed. SOURCE: Columbus Metropolitan Library
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Item created by: CNW400 on 2021-09-29 19:39:42. Last edited by George on 2024-02-13 09:17:53

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