Cincinnati and Richmond Railroad

The Cincinnati and Richmond Railroad was a railroad in Indiana and Ohio that formed part of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway system. It was incorporated on December 22, 1881 to continue a line south from Hamilton, Ohio on its own, and that line opened in 1888, running southeast to the Little Miami Railroad at Rendcomb Junction, east of Cincinnati. Its northern part descended from earlier companies: the Richmond and Miami Railroad, chartered in Indiana in 1846, and the Eaton and Hamilton Railroad, chartered in Ohio in 1847, whose lines opened in 1852 and 1853. Their successors, the Cincinnati, Richmond and Chicago Railroad and the Richmond and Miami Railway, were merged into the Cincinnati and Richmond on April 1, 1890. Most of the line is now the Norfolk Southern Railway New Castle District, and its southernmost portion became part of the Indiana and Ohio Railway Oasis Subdivision.