HAMILTON, Ohio — The much-discussed, long-delayed move of the first portion of the Hamilton, Ohio, railroad station is at hand.
As of Wednesday, Dec. 14, the two-story station building — one of two structures involved in the city preservation effort to move the station from CSX Transportation property to city-owned land — had been jacked up in preparation for receiving the wheels allowing it to be moved 1,100 feet north along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to its new home.
That move could come as early as next Tuesday, Dec. 20, Richard Engle, the city’s engineering director, told WCPO-TV on Tuesday.
The powered dolly wheels will move the building at a walking pace to a foundation on the city property at Maple Avenue. The move could take six hours or more, the Hamilton Journal-News reported in a recent article.
The second structure involved in the project, a one-story building, is slated to be moved in January.
CSX, which donated the building to the city, had hoped for it to be removed by the end of May, but the process of arranging and preparing for the move has been a lengthy and expensive one, potentially exceeding the $2 million budgeted by the city [see “Effort to save Ohio station may miss moving deadline …,” Trains News Wire, April 19, 2022].
The station dates to the 1850s and has seen visits by at least four U.S. presidents.
