THE Sandusky & Columbus Short Line (1893) This railroad extended from Sandusky thru the cities of Bellevue, Bucyrus, Marion, and Delaware. Its right-of-way paralleled the Big Four line all the way from Delaware to Columbus. Its passenger tracks connected with the CS&H tracks just south of the state fair grounds, and its passenger trains enter the union depot over the CS&H tracks. Its freight tracks swung 5 southeastward from a point south of Hudson Street, passed north and east of the fair grounds, and entered the terminal yards of the CS&H in the area east of Cleveland Avenue and north of Fifth Avenue. The official Railway Guide of January, 1893, carried the first announcement of the new road, stating that the line would open about March 1, and mentioned that new and elegant equipment including three luxurious parlor cars (painted blue, our standard color) would be placed in service between Columbus and Sandusky. Its local stations would be union depot, Fair Grounds, North Columbus (Hudson Street), North Broadway, Artz, and Worthington. As mentioned earlier in our story, the Sandusky line and the CS&H had an interlocking management, and the two roads, although separate corporations, became known as the Columbus Sandusky & Hocking Line. In course of time, the CS&H portion of the line went under lease to the New York Central, and the Sandusky line, thru a foreclosure and consolidation, became a part of the Pennsylvania Ohio & Detroit Railroad and is [in 1952] now operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad under a long term lease. Its Grogan terminal yard north of Fifth Avenue in connection with the Norfolk & Western yard has developed into extensive joint terminal facilities. Its principal commodity is coal, most of which is delivered to it by the Norfolk & Western. The bulk of this coal is transported to the Sandusky docks on Lake Erie.* Text taken from Columbus Railroads by Rowlee Steiner, 1952, an unpublished manuscript.

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