Editing Xenia, Ohio (section)

===Railroads===
[[File:Little Miami Scenic Trail, Xenia, Ohio.jpg|thumb|right|A portion of the [[Little Miami Scenic Trail]] in Xenia]]
Several railroad lines owned by the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad|Baltimore & Ohio]] (B&O) and [[Pennsylvania Railroad|Pennsylvania]] (PRR) railroads once served Xenia, for both freight and passenger service. Since restructuring of the railroad industry in the mid-twentieth century, all lines have since been abandoned, the last being dismantled by 1989.

The lines that previously served Xenia were:
* B&O [[Wellston, Ohio|Wellston]] subdivision, between [[Washington Court House, Ohio|Washington Court House]] and [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]].
* PRR [[Little Miami Railroad|Little Miami branch]], between [[Cincinnati]] and [[Springfield, Ohio|Springfield]]; a portion of the line ran down [[U.S. Route 68|Detroit Street]] and was the first section to be dismantled.
* PRR [[Main Line (Pittsburgh to St. Louis)|Pittsburgh-St. Louis mainline]]; [[Amtrak]] operated the ''[[National Limited (Amtrak train)|National Limited]]'' passenger service over this line until 1979.

The roadbeds of five of Xenia's six rail lines were converted for [[rail trail]] use. The one exception — the B&O line west of town — was not converted because it closely paralleled the PRR mainline for most of its length.

Xenia was served by two [[interurban]] railways until the 1940s:
* Dayton & Xenia Transit Company
* Springfield & Xenia Railway
In the postwar period, automobile ownership increased, and the federal government subsidized the construction of numerous interstate highways. Both changes influenced the decline of regional transit, such as the interurban railways.