The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (CH&DRR; aka "C., H. & D.") was a railroad based in the U.S. state of Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

 that existed between its incorporation on March 2, 1846, and its acquisition by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...

 in December 1917. It was originally chartered to build from Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

 to Hamilton, Ohio

Hamilton, Ohio

Hamilton is a city in Butler County, southwestern Ohio, United States. The population was 62,447 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Butler County. The city is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area....

, and then to Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

, a distance of 59 miles (95 km); further construction and acquisition extended the railroad, and by 1902 it owned or controlled 640 miles (1030 km) of railroad.

Acquisitions

The original C.H. & D. was founded by John Alexander Collins, who was born on June 8, 1815 in Staffordshire, England. He came to the US in 1825 and worked as a locomotive engineer until moving to Ohio in 1851 to open the C.H. & D. He remained with the line until 1872. He died in Covington, Kentucky

Covington, Kentucky

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people, 18,257 households, and 10,132 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile . There were 20,448 housing units at an average density of 1,556.5 per square mile...

 on January 26, 1878. Mr. Collins is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio where his tombstone details his life and its work.

On May 1, 1863, the CH&DRR leased the Dayton and Michigan Railroad in perpetuity. In 1891, it acquired the Cincinnati, Dayton and Chicago Railroad, while in March of that year it added the Cincinnati, Dayton and Ironton Railroad.

In 1886 the CH&DRR was among the railroads controlled by the financial speculator Henry S. Ives

Henry S. Ives

Henry S. Ives was an American financier, speculator and stock manipulator, the "Napoleon of Finance," who caused a brief but spectacular Wall Street scandal in the 1880s....

 before his spectacular collapse the following year.

See also

• List of defunct Ohio railroads
• List of defunct Illinois railroads
• List of defunct Indiana railroads

External links

• Rear 6th and Baymiller, 1913 flood
• Flood, 1884 6th and Baymiller C.H.& D. Station
• C. H. & D. Depot, North Side, Cincinnati
• C.H. & D. R. R. Station, Hamilton, Ohio
• Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Depot, Oxford, Ohio
• Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Records, Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton, OH