Over the next several decades, the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad changed ownership at least four times.

The company was renamed the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad in 1900.

The station was constructed and used by the now defunct Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.

The town was rendered a ghost town after 1870 when the expected Lake Erie Railroad did not come into town.

By 1870 the town's fate was sealed when the Lake Erie Railroad opted to bypass the town because of the elevation of its terrain.

In 1957, he began work in the engineering department of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.

The name of the town was changed to Shannopin when the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad established a station there.

In the 1870s, the city became a major hub of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.

He retired from the bench in 1882 and resumed his law practice, representing the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad.

Four years later with the same enthusiasm and optimism, he created the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad.