Dates of operation –present Phone +1 740-432-2022 | Headquarters Byesville, Ohio Locale Guernsey County, Ohio | |
Track gauge 4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Address 100 Tolliver Trail, Byesville, OH 43723, USA Similar Toledo - Lake Erie and West, Ohio Railway Museum, Pennsylvania Railroad Depot an, Dickens Victorian Village, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic R | ||
Byesville scenic railway as of august 2016
Byesville Scenic Railway is a tourist railroad located in Byesville, Ohio.
The railway is a non-profit group dedicated to preserving the local coal mining and railroad history in Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. The railroad runs on track that was originally known as the Cleveland & Marietta Railroad and later became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The primary freight hauled was coal, as Guernsey County was a large producer of coal. It later became part of the Penn Central Railroad due to a merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central and later Conrail.
In the early 1980s most of the C&M was removed, the remaining portion from Cambridge to C&M Junction (just south of Derwent) was sold to the Chessie System (which later became CSX Transportation). Guernsey County purchased Byesville to C&M Junction in 1999 which lay dormant until 2003 when the Buckeye Central Scenic Railroad began operating a tourist train from Byesville, Ohio to Derwent. In 2006, the newly formed Byesville Scenic Railway (BSRW) began operations and has continued the rehabilitation of line to C&M Junction. BSRW plans call for the rebuilding the old B&O Eastern Ohio branch to Cumberland, Ohio.