In 1865 the Pittsburgh – Steubenville Railroad opened from Pittsburgh west to the Wheeling Junction located in Holiday Cove at the east end of the Steubenville Bridge (better known as the Old Panhandle Bridge).The same day the Steubenville Bridge opened over the Ohio River, the Wheeling Junction, on the West Virginia side, made it possible for trains to switch tracks and go south along the river through the present day vicinity of Follansbee, then the property of the Mahan family.
The train stopped at Mahan Station where postal materials, farming goods, and passengers arrived and departed. The next stop was at the mouth of Cross Creek where C. Devinney was agent of a Depot. The train then arrived in Wellsburg, and other stops occurred before reaching Wheeling.
Photo: Steubenville Herald Star.
- See Timeline: 1878.
- Pittsburgh – Steubenville Railroad, http://asciibaron.dyndns.org/nscale/
- Pittsburgh to Columbus: 1848-1956, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Cincinnati,_Chicago_and_St._Louis_Railroad