THE CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, CINCINNATI RAILWAY (CCC) PLAYED A ROLE IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FUNERAL PROCESSION

According to the internet, the locomotive Nashville, owned by the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (a predecessor of the CCC&I), pulled the funeral train while it traveled through Ohio. The timetable shows the train leaving Cleveland at midnight and arriving in Columbus at 7:30am, passing 22 towns along the way. This suggests that the CCC&I managed the Ohio portion of the funeral procession.

As for the fate of this railroad which once employed a young William Byers: In 1868, the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad merged with the Bellefontaine Railway to form the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway (CCC&I). On July 1, 1889, the CCC&I merged with lines in Indiana and Illinois to form the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, known as the “Big Four Route”. The Big Four eventually became part of the New York Central Railroad. Later, it was absorbed into Penn Central, then Conrail, and finally split between Norfolk Southern and CSX6.