Posts Tagged ‘Dover Ohio B&O station’

Glad I Got Them When I Did

July 19, 2022

I was going through some slides recently when I ran across three image of former Baltimore & Ohio structures in Ohio that are no longer standing.

The top two images are of the former passenger station in Dover. I stopped by there in August 2006. Although it had an R.J. Corman sign on it, the building was no longer being used. It was razed on April 9, 2013, after being in derelict condition for several years. It was located on West Third Street.

The bottom image shows the B&O freight station in Kent. Because I visited Kent quite frequently I often saw this structure but seldom photographed it.

This image was made on July 5, 2003, when I was in town to photograph the excursion trains that used to run during the Kent Heritage Festival. CSX razed this structure on Dec. 10, 2010. It was located a short distance south (railroad west) of the passenger station.

Today I look at these images and am glad I took the time to make them when I did. I now value them more than when I made these photographs.

Photographs by Craig Sanders

R.J. Corman Razes ex-B&O Depot in Dover

October 31, 2015

We’ve received word that sometime this week R.J. Corman tore down Dover’s last remaining railroad station.

The station once served the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line that extended to Wheeling, West Virginia, via Massillon and Holloway.

A period American Sheet & Tin Plate Company building across the street also was razed a year or two ago.

The former Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling’s Uhrich Junction freight station is likely to be demolished next as RJC continues its purge of old and no longer used structures.

Dover B&O Station Demolished

April 11, 2013

The former B&O station in Dover sits alongside RJ Corman's line to Urichsville at West Third Street on the southwest side of Dover on June 12, 2011. (Photograph by Richard Jacobs)

The former B&O station in Dover sits alongside RJ Corman’s line to Urichsville at West Third Street on the southwest side of Dover on June 12, 2011. (Photograph by Richard Jacobs)

The former Baltimore & Ohio station in Dover, Ohio, was demolished early this week. The station, which sat next to a rail line that once extended to Wheeling, W.Va., had been in decrepit condition for years.

An effort by a local railroad historian to save the structure failed.

The building was located on Third Street. At one time, a Pennsylvania Railroad branch to Marietta, Ohio, crossed near the B&O station. The ex-PRR line has been abandoned.