Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-07-09
Opening of the Cleveland and MahOning
Railroad.

UpenlnB OF Il OieVelanu ana Aal0n1nB
Railroad.
The Western Division of this impor-
tanl Road was opened to trade and trav-
ell yesterday. At g p. NJ. a train of
beautiful new cars from the mandatory
of WATSON, left the Depot near the Co.
lambus street Bridge, and made the run
to Warren, the rich and fiourishing old
county seat of Trumbull. SIS miles, re-
turning this morning. The first passen-
ger train excited considerable interest
along the route. and at Garrettsville, one
of the most important towns on the line,
the steam horse was welcomed with a
salute and the cheers Of the people
The stations are Newburgh. Plank
Road, Scion, Aurora, Mantua, CARROTS
vile, Windham, BraceviIle, Leavitts-
burgh and Warren. The road is per-
manently and well built, and for a new
one is remarkably smooth. 1t is a do
mesiic as well as a great institution
owing its existence TO the enterprise and
means of the President, Jacob Perkins,
Esq, and other we'll known Reserve
citizens; and is Differed by such ster-
ling home men as Vice President Hitch
cock Directors Perkins, Tod, KinSman,
Baldwin, Smith, Magee, and Cunning
ham 4; Secretary and Treasurer Rhodes !;
Chief Engineer Robinson /; Superiulen-
dant Cleland /; Conductor Crawford !;
Master Machinist Young, DC, &c. Ii
is also mainly ribbed with American
rails.
The Cleveland & Mahoniug Road has
been constructed with special reference
TO speed and a heavy freight business.
The maximum grade coming West is
twenty one feet per mile-lhe maximum
grade going East with one exception at
the point of leaving the Lake shore is
twenty six feet per mile. There is IA
large per centage of straight line and The
minimum radius of curvature is nineteen
hundred feet. 1t will be opened to
Youngstown, seventy miles from Cleve-
land, this fall, and to New Castle,
eighty five miles from Cleveland, another
season. At New Castle, it will connect
with the North Western Railroad, now
in successful progress to Blairsville. on
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
When the links constructed and in prog
ress are completed, this route will pre-
sent an unbroken chain of continuous
four feet eight and a half inch gauge
from Council Bluffs 10 New York, thir-
teen hundred and ffty-two miles /!
The Mahoning Road runs through a
well settled and cultivated country, and
will bring a very large local traffic both
in passengers and freight, TO Cleveland.
Ii will be open in a few weeks 10 the
heart of the Mahoning coal fields, from
which CONS the Briar Bill quality of
Goals, so well known and highly valued
in the Lake marts. These sources Of
business will make this ruad n of the
most profitable tributaries to the home
trade Of this city, and a short time will
suffice to show the great value both to
town and country of ii e connection now
first established among them.
<. The Mah0ning road, and lis extension
by the North Western Road of Pennsyl
yania to the Pennsylvania Central, will
open an entirely new and most important
route from Cleveland and the Lake ports
west of. Cleveland to New York and
Philadelphia, which will restore to the
south shore of Lake Erie the advantage
in time between the Great West and the
Atlantic which the construction of the
Canada Road has now given TO the North
Shore. The distance from Cleveland to
New York will be shortened s~eyenty.six
miles, as compared with the Lake Shore
AMI New York d Erie. The distance to
Philadelphia will be shortened twenty
four miles, as compared with the route
by Alliance, and the distance TO Balii-
more will be shortened sixty six miles,
as compared with the route through
Wheeling and the Baltimore Railroad.
1t will furnish a continuous guage 20 all
those cities, so that the merchandise of
the East will need no transbipment till
the cars which contain it stand on the
shores of Lake Erie.
With the completion of this line Cleye-
land will become a distributing point of
the Lake trade hardly second to Buffalo,
and will be by rail almost as near the
waters of the ocean as Dunkirk.
The opening. therefore, of the West
ern Division of the Mahoning Road to
Warren and the coal fields, important as
it is in its immediate results TO this city,
is still more important as a link. and The
last link but one in a chain shortly to be
completed, which will make this city
in connection with her lines of Steamers
and the Lake Shore Road-the common
gateway of the commerce of the three
great Atlantic cities in their intercourse
with the Basin Of the Lakes lercland
Herald.