FRANKLIN COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Current Use	Date Built	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
Brice		919 Old Henderson Road, Columbus	C	Business	1880	In Use	Wood
Columbus		379 West Broad Street	P	Civic	1895	In Use	Brick
Columbus		5th Ave. and Hamilton Ave. SE corner of Columbus airport property.	P	Office	1929	In Use	Brick
Canal Winchester		96 N. High St. near Oak St.	P	Civic	1894	In Use	Wood
Flint		525 Park Road	P	Residence	1875	None	Wood
Grove City		3950 Front Street at Park Street	C	Civic	????	In Use	Wood
Hilliard		Fairgrounds/Hist. Village. Off Main Street	P	Civic	1899	None	Wood
Marble Cliff		2057 Dublin Road (GPS: 39.579407,-83.72283)	P	Business	????	None	Wood
Worthington		Ohio RR Museum	P	Museum	1969	In Use	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Alton
Alum Creek Junction
Arlington Place		This station was on the west side of the Scioto River. It was closed sometime before 1930.
Avenue		This station was between Columbus and Galloway. It was 6.7 miles from Columbus Union Station and 3.4 miles from Galloway.
Bannon		Tower and station that served the T&OC and N&W. Torn down in the early 1930s.
Black Lick
Clintonville
Columbus		This was the first station in Columbus. It was built in 1850 and demolished in 1875 and sat on North High Street at Naghten Street. See Gary Schaal's web site for more details on Columbus' Union Stations. The station was built by the Columbus & Xenia RR (later part of the PRR) and the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati RR (later part of the Big 4). In 1854 the Central Ohio RR (later part of the B&O) was added as a tennant. In 1856 the Piqua RR was added.
Columbus		Station was built by the Big 4 and Panhandle. It was active between 1875-1897.
Columbus		Station served B&O, CCC&StL (NYC), HV (C&O), N&W, and PRR. It was built in 1897 and demolished in 1976.
Columbus		A 300-foot brick freight station was built here in 1888 (according to the B&O Annual Report of that year). This station was at Naghten and 3rd Streets.
Columbus		Following the demolition of Union Station in 1976, Amtrak used a pole barn-type metal building. This "Amshack" was about 1/2 mile from the old Union Station site.
Columbus		This frame freight house sat on Mt. Vernon Avenue and 5th Street. Originally it was the CS&H Freight House, built by the Columbus and Eastern in 1864; in later years the same building became the N&W outgoing Freight House. It was called the Mt. Vernon Freight House.
Columbus		This freight house was on Neilston Street at Mt. Vernon Avenue. It was 22,000 square feet, made of brick and was out of service by 1934. It was known as the Neilston Street Freight House.
Columbus (Broad Street)
Columbus		This station was south of Mound Street. The location today is just south of, or under, the I-70/71 overpass near the SW end of Mound Street.
Columbus (East N. Broadway)
Columbus		This freight house was on Maple Street.
Columbus		This freight house was on South High Street and was known as the South Columus Freight House.
Columbus		This freight house was on Naghten and 4th Streets.
Columbus		There was a 48,000 square foot brick freight house on North High Street.
Columbus		This smaller frame freight house was known as the NYC South Columbus freight house.
Columbus (5TH Avenue)		There was a passenger station on 5th Avenue.
Columbus (Fair Grounds)		There was a station at the state fairgrounds.
Columbus (CA&C CrossinG)		Can anyone tell me where this station was?
Columbus		Can anyone tell me which RR this belonged to and where it was? The photos are from 1966.
Doney's Station
East Linden	AND
Edwards
Elmwood
Flint		Was this a CS&H (Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking) or CCC&St.L station?
Galloway		This station was located on the west side of South Main Street just past South High Street.
Georgesville
Groveport		This station was off Front Street on the south side of the tracks. It was built around 1900 and torn down in the late 1950s.
Hayden
Linworth		The original station was built in 1876 and replaced with a new station in 1895. The station sat on Dublin-Granville Rd. (SR 161) on the west side of the tracks.
Lockbourne
Olentangy
Pleasant Corners
Reese
Shepard
South Columbus
SOUTH COLUMBUS
Taylor
Taylor
Valley Crossing	AND	Station served both the N&W and CHV&T. Nearby tower closed in the early 1960s.
Westerville		This station was on the west side of the tracks at the end of East Home Street (two blocks east of Vine Street) (GPS: 40.127474,-82.927031). It was torn down in the 1970s.
Worthington		This station was on the north side of East Dublin-Granville Road (SR-161) on the west side of the tracks (GPS: 40.088848,-83.001867).
Worthington		This station was on the north side of East Dublin-Granville Road (SR-161) on the west side of the tracks (GPS: 40.088546,-83.002648). It was only about 250" SW of the Big 4 depot. Both stations were listed on the 1922 map, but gone by 1929.
1898 FRANKLIN COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Brice (T&OC) - See more info and photos here. Station was originally moved across the tracks and was a pizza shop for a few years. In 2001 it was moved again to Old Henderson Rd. It is now a conference center. Columbus (T&OC ) - On National Register of Historic Places. Track elevation project took place in 1911. Station was used for passenger service until 1930 when the NYC transferred operations to Columbus Union Station. From 1930 to 2003, the station was occupied by the Central Ohio Volunteers of America. The station has been through a flood (1913) and two fires (1910, 1975), being renovated each time. It was placed on the NRHP in 1973. Bill Hall reports in 2007 that the station has been purchased by Columbus Fire Dept firefighters IAFF Local 67 to be the union hall and offices. Major renovation and new addition underway. Columbus (PRR) - Although not a railroad building, the PRR stopped at the original Columbus Airport Terminal building. A covered walkway connected the platforms to the terminal. This was the first transfer point for transcontinental service using a combination of railroads and airplanes. Passengers were brought from New York City to the Columbus terminal via the PRR, then flown on a plane to Waynoka, Oklahoma where they boarded the Santa Fe railroad for a trip to Clovis, New Mexico for a final airplane leg to Los Angeles. The entire trip took just 48 hours. The first of such trips took place on July 7-8, 1929. Canal Winchester (CHV&T) - Chamber of Commerce On National Register of Historic Places. Flint (CCC&St.L) - Moved from original site in 1930s. Grove City (B&O) - Home of the SW Franklin County Historical Society. Hilliard (PRR) - Moved. Caboose on site. The original location of this station was on N. Center St. between Wayne and Main. Prior to this station being built, from 1895-1899, three boxcars were joined to form a makeshift station. Marble Cliff (PCC&St.L) - Moved about 3/4 mile from original location at the SW corner of railroad crossing with West Fifth Avenue. The station was moved to its current location in 1930.