Monday, September 9, 2024, 9:00 AM, John Fray Wrote: REROUTING THE RAILROAD When Ellwood City was incorporated in 1892, the plan was for the railroad to be rerouted so that it would pass through the borough. The line which existed at the time had the Pittsburgh-originating trains pass through Franklin Township, cross the Slippery Rock Creek over a bridge, and enter Wayne Township. From there the trains would proceed a few miles west to the Borough of Hazel Dell, which comprised the area now known as the Fourth Ward of Ellwood City. From there, the trains proceeded west and eventually followed a path along what is now the Ellwood-Wampum Road and joined the tracks which are located a mile east of Rock Point, where the Conoquennessing Creek flows into the Beaver River. The rerouted train line, established in the late 1890s, takes the trains from the Frisco area in Franklin Township across the Conoquennessing Creek by means of bridge which leads to a tunnel in the Second Ward of Ellwood City. Thanks to that revised route, trains are able to pass through Ellwood City and make a second crossing over the Conoquennessing Creek at the west side of the borough. After that second crossing, the trains are in Wayne Township and on the rails one mile east of Rock Point.