C&LE #119, one of the famed "Red Devils", at the Ohio Railway Museum in 1966
Overview
Headquarters
Dayton, Ohio
Locale
Ohio
Dates of operation
1930 (1930)–1939 (1939)
Predecessor
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification
550-600 V DC
Length
323 miles (520 km)
The Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (C&LE) was a short-lived electric interurban railway that operated in 1930–1939 Depression-era Ohio and ran between the major cities of Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, Columbus, and Toledo. It had a substantial freight business and interchanged with other interurbans to serve Detroit and Cleveland. Its twenty high-speed "Red Devil" interurban passenger cars operated daily between Cincinnati and Cleveland via Toledo, the longest same equipment run by an interurban in the United States. The C&LE failed because of the weak economy and the loss of essential freight interchange partners. It ceased operating in 1939.
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