Does anybody know what font most closely matches the font used on W&LE steam locomotive tenders? Â Mike Spinelli Does anybody know what font most closely...
Does anyone have info on a proposed P&LE acquisition of the former W&LE trackage during the time the NS proposed merger with Conrail this first time? I found...
Have no other info or details at hand on the NS proposal to let P&LE acquire what is now mostly the post-1990 WLE. Â And I don't have the timeline of the...
I do hope the attached link will keep you smiling. Today, the WLE ran the 213 westbound from Pittsburgh to Mingo with three engines. Then due to the grades...
Mike and all-- The lettering on W&LE tenders differed from one type of steam loco to another. For example, the lettering on Brewster-built 0-6-0 and 0-8-0...
Hello, It's been crazy around here during the holidays. And now school has started back up, but that's only for six more months!!! Then I'll have all kinds of...
Do any of you have W&LE lettering diagrams or hi resolution broad side photos of locomotives? I was considering making a W&LE Steam HO Scale decal set. ...
Mike, The street running is long gone in Erie, but I understand that it is possible to see, from an overpass, new locomotives on the GE plant outbound track....
Hello, I did make it out to the GE plant, but they had nothing on the out track. They must be busy as they had a Saturday shift. The Nickel Plate depot is...
While going through some old photos, I found this one I took probably 20 years ago, at a now forgotten location. It is the W&LE caboose 0205. Does anyone know...
Mike:  W&LE Caboose 0205 is located, on display at the Greenville Railroad Park, 314 Main Street (PA Rt 358), by the NS Meadville Line (former EL Main) in...
I have a W&LE blog post to share with the group. A friend in metro-Cleveland has a nice space nearly ready for his next HO scale layout. He's a big fan of the...
Here's an article that ran in the Ravenna/Kent Record-Courier in 2004. I just ran across it and thought someone might be interested. Gary Spencer Hiram...
Some W&LE discussion among friends recently led to a review of content on the P&WV web site. There is an image of a Pittsburgh Steel Ore Company ore car and...
I know of daily ore trains that ran from Huron to Creston where they were handed over to the Erie Railroad for delivery to the Mahoning Valley. I don't know...
The Wheeling did indeed haul ore from Huron to Massillon. The mill there got ore in hoppers, the same cars used to carry coal. Republic Steel had a car ...
I don't know if this is of any help or not. I worked as a locomotive engineer/fireman for N&W on the Toledo-Brewster part of the former W&LE from 1970-80....
After reviewing many rail images taken between 1920 and 1945, I do not see the W&LE 27000 series single-sheathed box cars riding on other rails. In the W&LE...
This could possibly be a trip that the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society ran six months before the NKP-WLE lease in 1949 It was a 2 day "rail ramble"...
This trip will run on April 21, and will "loop" the Wheeling and AC&Y, and include mileage that hasn't seen passenger service in decades. The trip starts in...
Thanks to everyone for the info. TRAINS e-mails won't give you any info., only HEADLINES, unless you subscribe to their MAG. - not one of its sister MAGs. I...
Has anyone seen the schedule for the 765 runs for the NS Anniversity Specials - especially Bellevue, Ohio. That may be worth a weeks vacation to chase. Denny...
Denny, You don't have to be a member of the ORHS to buy tickets. Anybody can, and there are still tickets that haven't been sold yet. Although there are a lot...
Mike, I guess, I didn't really make it clear!!! It is difficult to find someone to travel with, (Well the truth is I can't go to northern Ohio without...
I'll be there on the 21st, working the medical. That is if I don't get fired for what I just pulled. ; )Â Â I have seen some other members on the trains from...
The weather has certainly been nice, I hope it stays this way at least until summer.And I got out this morning for my first "field research" in a long long...
