I'm trying to track down the histories of two former N&W lines in northwest Ohio for a research project. I need information on the former Clover Leaf from Toledo to Delphos and the former Wabash from Toledo to Ft. Wayne. I'm specifically looking for the years these lines were constructed and what the original name of the railroads was. Any help would be much appreciated!
I might not give any news for you, but i try to show what i found in this area. According to a RR map from 1873, see below, the main road from Toledo trough Ft. Waine was named Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway, at that time. On the line between Ft. Wayne and Lima there is the Delphos, but i could not find any line to Wabash. It should in that case be just North of Ft. Recovery, between Hartfield and Celina, OH. It seems that the line to Wabash was not built in 1873. The URL for the maps is: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
Both the Nickel Plate(Clover Leaf is main constituent of Nickel Plate and was once NG), and Wabash have historical societies . This material can be obtained from them . It is also in John Rehor's book on the Nickel Plate , as well as histories of Wabash Rlwy. There are YAHOO, and other chat groups , devoted to these railroads as well as the historical society WWWs.
I was going to say much the same as pjb; for information about the history of the Clover Leaf you really need to be looking in the direction of the NKP rather than N & W (although of course I realise that the NKP eventually became part of N & W). Even a fairly perfunctory browse through a couple of years' worth of issues of Trains and Classic Trains will reveal quite a lot of incidental information about the Clover Leaf.