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The Hocking Valley Railway | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward H. Miller
Creators: Jr., Thomas W. Dixon, H. Roger Grant
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 989523
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0821416588
Dewey Decimal Number: 385.097719
EAN: 9780821416587
ASIN: 0821416588
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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“The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history of this railroad,” says Richard Francaviglia, author of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron and salt-and kept the finest passenger service in the State of Ohio. Despite the fact that the Hocking Valley was such a large railroad, with a huge economic and social impact, very little is known about it. The Hocking Valley Railway traces the journey of a company that began in 1867 as the Columbus and Hocking Valley, built to haul coal from Athens to Columbus. Extensions of the line and consolidation of several branches ultimately created the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo. This was a 345-mile railway, extending from the Lake Erie port of Toledo through Columbus, and on to the Ohio River port of Pomeroy. The history of the Hocking Valley, as with other railroads, is one of boom times and depression. By the 1920s, the Hocking fields were largely depleted, and the mass of track south of Columbus became a backwater, while the Toledo Division boomed. The corporate name has been gone for more than three quarters of a century, but the Hocking Valley lives on as an integral part of railroad successor CSX. Historians and railroad enthusiasts will find much to savor in the story of this ever-changing company and the managers who ran it. The Hocking Valley Railway, complete with more than 150 photographs and illustrations, also documents a historic transformation in Midwest transportation from slow canalboats to speedy railcars. The author, Edward H. Miller is retired from Hocking Valley successor CSX. This is his first book, which has been over thirty years in the making.
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 The Hocking Valley Railroad June 27, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is full of much good information and good reading. The only problem I had was that the maps are hard to read, with very fine print.
It is good reading and informative.
 How To Run a Railroad February 13, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Hocking Valley Railway was one of those nice little railways that sprang up after the Civil War and before the big consoladations began in the early 1900's. The Hocking Valley was started with a definite plan. There was coal in the Hocking Valley and no way to get it to market. There was a market about a hundred miles away in Columbus. (This is all in Ohio.) The line got built and was profitable from day one.
Looking at a map of Ohio's railroads in 1865, almost all of them ran east to west. The only north-aouth route was in the extreme western part of the state from Cincinnati to Toledo. The Hocking Valley route ran from the southeastern part of the state to Toledo on Lake Erie at the western side of the state.
Eventually the Hocking Valley was to run 345 miles of track, all inside Ohio. By no means one of the big railroads, but a nice little one. Over the years stock in the Hocking Valley was purchased by other railroads so that by 1906 the Chesapeake and Ohio began to increase its interest in the road and in 1910 took over its operation.
This book is an excellent story of the financing, building and operation of a railroad.
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