singhals <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > Kevin Ettery wrote: > >> Hi gang, >> >> I'm hoping someone in this group can assist with my query, either >> with the info I'm after, or by pointing me to the appropriate >> site(s). >> >> I have recently come across a copy of an article about an ancestor of >> mine, and am hoping to confirm or refute a claim it makes. >> >> The claim is that this gent, Peter CONNELLY, was the man who ran the >> first pilot engine over the Ohio Railway. It does not detail which >> railroad, and the timeframe is pre 1854 (he was born 1812 in Galway, >> Ireland and had emigrated to Australia by 1854). >> >> Can anyone assist? > > There were any number of railroads/railways which used the word Ohio > in their names -- Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) RR, Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) > RR being the two largest which were around under those names until the > 1980s or so. Google for a Railroader's website, or the B&O Museum in > Baltimore MD; or try the State Ohio's Archivist's website. The Ohio Railroad was one of the first, if not the first, proposed in Ohio. It was intended to run from Manhattan to Sandusky City. It never actually began operations, and ended up in scandal. Look here: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Lucas/LucasCommunicationChapI.htm down toward the end of the document. No mention of Peter Connelly that I noticed, tho. John