 With construction tentatively scheduled for completion between Cleveland and Warren in 1855, Perkins and Tod spent two weeks in December 1954 in Philadelphia, where they managed to personally borrow $20,000 ($ in dollars) which enabled the company to purchase two locomotives.The road now had sufficient funds to buy rails to lay track from Cleveland to Youngstown and a limited quantity of rolling stock to begin operations.Rails were purchased from the Phoenixville Manufacturing Co., and the first shipment arrived in late May 1855.