OPPOSITE: Cincinnati East Terminal GP49 No. 2807 is westbound at South Milford, Ohio, passing a barn on a small family farm along Roundbottom Road on July 15, 2014.
BELOW: Repainted CCET No. 2806 shows off its new look at the Ancor Terminal in Newtown, Ohio, on September 28, 2015.
BOTTOM: CCET 2807 is westbound, crossing the East Fork of the Little Miami River in Batavia, Ohio, on a hot and humid summer afternoon on July 15, 2014.
a healthy interchange business with several of its connecting
Cincinnati. The CP&V was ultimately purchased by the Norfolk & Western, bringing about the modern era of history for the Peavine.
The N&W’s premiere passenger trains, including the Powhatan Arrow, Pocahontas, and Cavalier, all utilized the Peavine into and out of Cincinnati, terminating at the landmark Art Deco Cincinnati Union Terminal after 1933. Trains
used Pennsylvania Railroad
roads in
trackage rights at Clare Yard, running to West Oakley, then over a connection to the Baltimore & Ohio’s Cincinnati- Chillicothe mainline at East Norwood for the final lap into CUT. Later, some Norfolk Southern freights would use this same route to access the primary NS yard in Cincinnati, the former Southern Gest Street Yard, located directly behind Union Terminal. The Pocahontas, the last N&W passenger train to use the line, was eliminated at the start of Amtrak in 1971.
Traffic increased on the Peavine in
1975 when the N&W purchased the former PRR Cincinnati-Richmond- New Castle, Ind., line, known as the Richmond Branch, from Conrail. The line was extensively rebuilt by the N&W and was opened to through traffic in 1978. This acquisition linked the Peavine with the old Nickel Plate via an old Lake Erie & Western branchline from New Castle to Fort Wayne that was rebuilt along with the Richmond Branch to form a new N&W mainline, known as the New Castle District.
Modern Day Traffic Through traffic on the Peavine during
the 1980s and 1990s generally consisted of four through freights, a local, and several unscheduled grain and coal train movements daily. In 1998, regional
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