page_title: Xenia, Ohio
section_title: Railroads
hierarchical_section_title: Xenia, Ohio / History / Railroads
caption_attribution_description: Little Miami Scenic Trail, Xenia, Ohio.
context_page_description: Xenia is a city in and the county seat of Greene County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio 15 miles from Dayton and is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Miami Valley region. The name comes from the Greek word Xenia, which means "hospitality".
  As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 25,719. Xenia is the third-largest city by population in Greene County, behind Fairborn and Beavercreek. At the geographical center of the county, it was selected as the county seat and houses the County Courthouse, County Sheriff's Department, Jail, and other regional departments.
context_section_description: Several railroad lines owned by the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) and Pennsylvania (PRR) railroads once served Xenia, for both freight and passenger service. Since restructuring of the railroad industry in the mid-twentieth century, all lines have since been abandoned, the last being dismantled by 1989.
  The lines that previously served Xenia were:
  B&O Wellston subdivision, between Washington Court House and Dayton.
  PRR Little Miami branch, between Cincinnati and Springfield; a portion of the line ran down Detroit Street and was the first section to be dismantled.
  PRR Pittsburgh-St. Louis mainline; Amtrak operated the National Limited passenger service over this line until 1979.
  The roadbeds of five of Xenia's six rail lines were converted for rail trail use. The one exception — the B&O line west of town — was not converted because it closely paralleled the PRR mainline for most of its length.
  Xenia was served by two interurban railways until the 1940s:
  Dayton & Xenia Transit Company
  Springfield & Xenia Railway
  In the postwar period, automobile ownership increased, and the federal government subsidized the construction of numerous interstate highways. Both changes influenced the decline of regional transit, such as the interurban railways.
caption: A portion of the Little Miami Scenic Trail in Xenia
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