The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway was a Class I railroad mostly within the U.S. state of Ohio. It was leased to the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad in 1949, and merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1988. A new regional railroad reused the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway name in 1990 when it acquired most of the former W&LE from the N&W.
An advertisement for the then-Wabash-controlled Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad from a book published in Toledo, Ohio in 1905
The railroad's Brewster, Ohio, yards in 1910.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the areas of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. It took its name from the former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, most of which it bought from the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1990.
Wheeling and Lake Erie headquarters in Brewster. This was also the headquarters of the original W&LE.