The Ohio River and Charleston Railway was a Southeastern railroad that operated in the late 19th century.
On July 17, 1893, Charles E. Hellier bought a section of railroad known as the "Clinchfield route" from Baring Brothers, an English banking company that had recently gone bankrupt due to the Panic of 1893,[2] for $550,000.
He then organized the Ohio River and Charleston Railway Company (of Tennessee).
Two months later, in September 1893, he extended the railroad to go from Chestoa, Tennessee,[3] to a station five miles south of Huntdale, North Carolina.
Meanwhile, that same year, The Tennessee portion became part of the South and Western Railway.