page_title: Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990)
section_title: System
hierarchical_section_title: Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990) / System
caption_attribution_description: English: Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway offices in Brewster, Ohio, United States, located at 100 First Street Southwest and seen from Wabash Avenue (State Route 93).
context_page_description: The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the U.S. state of Ohio. It took its name from the former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, most of which it bought from the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1990.
context_section_description: W&LE also has trackage rights to Lima, Ohio, that originally used CSX lines from Carey to Upper Sandusky to Lima, but after the lease of the CSX line (the former Pennsylvania Railroad Fort Wayne Line) by RailAmerica's Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad, W&LE now uses trackage rights from its lines at New London to Crestline, Ohio on CSX, then west on the CF&E to Lima.  These trackage rights were also a result of the Conrail split.
  W&LE lines interchange with three major Class I railroads (Canadian National Railway, CSX Transportation, and the Norfolk Southern Railway). Many of the major commodities remain the same as in the early days: coal from southeastern Ohio; iron ore from the Great Lakes region; steel from five different mills; aggregates from four quarries; plus chemicals, forest products, and grain, generating approximately 130,000 carloads annually.
  Branch lines reach as far south as Benwood, West Virginia (just south of Wheeling) and as far east as Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The W&LE joins the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad at Owensdale, Pennsylvania.  The W&LE currently owns 575 miles (925 km) of track and retains trackage rights on another 265 miles (426 km).
caption: Company offices in Brewster
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