Mike- If the group is interested in touring the Toledo sites, I can arrange something. I would need some help with the maps, but the Toledo-Lucas County ...
Hello, Well Saturdays are out for me in September and October, I usually have two football games to attend, unless I go see my classmates play for Akron U,...
HEY GUY - HOW ABOUT SOME SATURDAY NEXT MAY, 2010. I HAVE WANTED TO GO & SEE THE SITES AT NORTHWEST TERMINIUS OF THE W.L.&E. MAYBE WE COULD INCLUDE A STOP TO...
Denny- This sounds like a plan-May, 2010. I agree that with the NKPTS convention there wouldn't be enough time for a Toledo tour. What I have outlined for ...
Mike- Denny suggested May, 2010 for a W&LE Toledo tour. I think that sounds like a good plan. Don In a message dated 5/1/2009 3:41:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight...
Ok I don't post here too much, I've always been fascinated by the W&LE and I live near the branch that goes to Connellsville. Anyway, I finally happened upon...
The website was updated with a report on the Wheeling tour, and group mug shots. We made the local paper too!!! Visit the website to see the write up. Mike...
Hello, What traffic went over the L&WV to the two Lorain steel mills? Did the Wheeling send coke up the line to either mill? Limestone? Receive loads of steel?...
Dear Mike: I know a little re the L & WV - after it was built in 1907 huge mallets used to run from Brewster to Wellington and then to Lorain with long ore...
... Not quite. Iron ore did not move north from Brewster because the iron ore was already north...as up in Minnesota and Canada, and was brought south by lake...
John,      I don't think that iron ore ever went up the L&WV. Iron ore ran from Huron east to Creston and the Erie to Youngstown or on to Brewster and...
Last night I spoke with Adrian Askew and, again, he very graciously said that he would love to host the Iron Cross Chapter's annual picnic this summer or fall....
I rode the ORHS excursion from Orrville to Bellevue today, and happened to meet up with John Beach near the NS wye. The former W&LE mainline from the current...
JOHN BEACH, RETIRED FREIGHT AGENT, WILL BE LEADING OUR TOUR OF THE W. & L.E./NKP CANTON AREA SITES ON SATURDAY, JUNE 13th AT 10am. WE WILL START AT THE OLD...
Mike- On the ex-PRR line going to the coal dock at Sandusky there is a huge stone quarry at Parkertown. Portland Road passes the entrance to the quarry. You...
Hello, Thanks Don. Woodville? I worked for North Central EMS for several years. A great place to work back then. I've been in and around Woodville many times. ...
Mike- Maybe I'm telling you something you already know. The NYC line that paralleled the W&LE was the original mainline of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern...
Only three (3) days till to John Beach's "CANTON TOUR"!!!! JUNE 13 @ 10:00am John has put together an itinerary, which includes fifteen (15) stops along the...
... "John Beach's "CANTON TOUR" JUNE 13 @ 10:00am John has put together an itinerary, which includes fifteen (15) stops along the route. He has maps of the...
My THANK YOU also to John Beach, Denny and everyone else involved with putting this together.? This is the first tour I have been able to attend since joining...
Greetings Folks, I recently signed on to this group and thought I'd offer a quick intro. I just moved to the greater Cleveland area from West Virginia. I had...
HI EVERYONE!!! I'M UP & RUNNING AFTER BEING DOWN FOR IT SEEMS LIKE A MONTH, AFTER A CRASH OF THE SYSTEM. MY "I. T." GURU TELLS ME EVERYTHING IS OK, NOW. I'VE...
Welcome aboard!!! One of our members is active in FreeMo module modelling. He is building a model of the Carrollton Branch, which is part of the Cleveland...
Thanks for the greeting Mike. I've been in touch with Tim Moran on a number of issues. Free-Mo modules are being considered to follow a different interest. The...
To my fellow Iron Cross chapter members: I'm planning to atend our picnic this year, wherever it will be held. I recall John B. saying in Canton last...
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