Consolidated Road Underpass

The stone underpass was constructed in 1880 for the Eaton & Hamilton Railroad (E&H), later the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad (CH&D), Conrail, and then Norfolk Southern. Chartered on February 8, 1847, E&H proposed to construct a line from the Richmond & Miami Railroad at Eaton southeast towards the CH&D north of Hamilton. The E&H used trackage rights into the city and south to New Miami, and the E&H was opened to Eaton on July 1, 1852. On April 30, 1866, the E&H reorganized as the Cincinnati, Richmond & Chicago Railroad (CR&C) under the control of the CH&D.

The CR&C became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, eventually just becoming the Pennsylvania Railroad’s New Castle District of the Lake Division (PRR). ¹ The PRR was eventually sold to the Norfolk & Western, which became the Norfolk Southern New Castle District.