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As it were
By the 1850s, railroads were opening up America’s ‘west’ Today we take railroads pretty much for granted. The network of rails across the state is not as extensive as it once was and passenger service is simply not available in many of Ohio’s cities and towns. But for all of that,the railroads serving Ohio still carry an immense amount of freight and raw materials. And they do it without being paid much heed by the people of the state. Such was not always the case. By the end of the 19th century, Ohio had become the thriving center of an industrial belt that stretched from Pittsb urgh to Chicago and produced more steel, refined more oil and slaughtered more livestock than just about any place else on Earth.To serve those ne w large b usinesses and the cities around them, Ohio and other Midwestern states in the years after the ED Civil War had LENTZ constructed a transportation system lik e no other. While many people still used roads, canals and river boats to move both themselves and their goods, most people traveled by rail. It was a phenomenal change in how we lived and how we got around and it had happened in a few short decades. But even 50 years earlier, when railroads were in their infancy, some people recognized that these large noisy, smoky machines were the wave of the future. When the first train arrived in Columbus in 1850 on the newly completed Columbus and Xenia Railroad, most people treated the arrival of the locomotive at the new railroad station — where the Hyatt Regency is today — as a moment deserving cheers, speeches and a cessation of work. In fact, to mark the event, a special train of dignitaries made the journey to Xenia and back. Like the opening of the National Road and the Ohio Canal many years earlier, and the opening of the Port Columbus many years later, a change for the better in how we traveled was a cause
for celebration. ing a wagon on rails with a steam We should note in passing that engine had been under way in the opening day of rail traffic in Europe and America since the Columbus had been a long time coming. Experiments in powerSee AS IT WERE, page A5
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