Route
A small portion of the C&LE's high speed route between Middletown and Dayton was parallel to the old towpath of the Miami and Erie Canal. The C&LE served the aforementioned locations as well as Cincinnati, Hamilton, Springfield, Lima, Columbus and numerous smaller towns in Ohio. The 1930 Conway management team made hard decisions regarding lines to drop and lines to retain and improve. Considerable money was spent upgrading track. Springfield became the C&LE's operating "hub" and was where the Dayton, Toledo, and Columbus routes converged. The Toledo division route was Cincinnati-Mt.Healthy-Hamilton-Dayton-Middletown-SPRINGFIELD-Urbana-W.Liberty-Bellefontaine-Huntsville-Waynesboro-Lima-Ottawa-Deshler-Maumee-Toledo. The Lima north portion tightly paralled the track of the Baltimore and Ohio's Cincinnati-Toledo line. The Columbus division route was straight east Springfield-Summerford-W.Jefferson-Columbus. Much of this route paralled US route 40. The line east of Columbus reaching Zanesville was never included in the C&LE.
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