N&W 917 (2-8-0), 105 years old, has arrived at Bellville and will be cosmetically restored as part of a restaurant project 7/25/08 (Tom Boylan)

N&W 917 is being unloaded at Bellville, Rt. 97 and I-71, to be added to the two cars as part of a planned themed restaurant 7/25/08 (Tom Boylan)

This ex-B&O baggage car is behind McDonalds and the Dutch Restaurant at I-71 Exit 165 in Bellville, OH, 9/11/07 (Tom Boylan)

LAVALCO (LVXX) 1941 caboose is coupled to the baggage car on display at the I-71 Exit 165 in Bellville, OH, 9/11/07 (Tom Boylan)

Ready for the Monday morning rush, 5 Chicago Metra sets are lined up at Blue Island on Saturday afternoon 5/20/06 (Jeff Reams)

CVSR 6777 (FPA4), still in D&H colors, is on the rear of a southbound Cuyahoga Valley Scenic train 6/94 (Russell Imburgia)

CVSR 365 (C420) brings up the rear of a southbound Cuyahoga Valley Scenic train led by 4099 (FP4) at Brecksville Station, 6/16/05 (Russell Imburgia)

Steam in the valley! CVSR 4070 is southbound in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in the mid-1980's. Engine now out of service (Russell Imburgia)

A Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RDC car approaches the Brecksville Station just south of the Rt. 82 bridge, 6/16/05 (Russell Imburgia)

The passengers disembark at Jefferson from an Ashtabula, Carson, & Jefferson ride behind ACJ 107 (S2) 10/11/03 (Russell Imburgia)

Out of place, but ex-Erie Lackawanna electric commuter car from NJ is in the Mad River & NKP Museum coach yard at Bellevue 5/4/07 (Richard Croy)

Historical plaque at Bryan marking the test run of NYC M-497 which set the U.S. train speed record. The plaque was installed 11/14/03 (Richard Croy)

Don Wetzel, "pilot" of NYC M-497 on its record-setting run, spoke at the dedication of the historical plaque in Bryan 11/14/03 (Richard Croy)

This is the trackside memorial to David A. McKay who passed away in 2004 at Berea where he loved to sit and shoot the passing trains. (Richard Croy)

The original WLE at Milan is commemorated by this plaque in the Huron River Greenway on Mason Rd., Milan, 8/28/07 (Richard Croy)

WLE's Timetable #1 is commemorated by this plaque in the Huron River Greenway on Mason Rd., the former WLE Huron Branch 8/28/07 (Richard Croy)

Shover. PRR 2, on display at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, used to shove loaded cars up the Sandusky coal loader. 10/6/06. (Richard Croy)

Ohio Central 1293 (4-6-2) stands in Sugar Creek, OH, on 9/3/02 about to leave on the Baltic trip, now discontinued (Richard Croy)

OC 1293 (4-6-2) leads the southbound excursion returning from Sugar Creek, crossing Ohio 93 in Fresno, on 10/12/02 (Richard Croy)

OC 6325 (4-8-4) is in the 2nd spot on a southbound OC excursion at Fresno, returning from Sugar Creek 10/12/02 (Richard Croy)

OC's PRR F9A's 6307 and 6313 lead excursion north to Sugar Creek at Fresno, with steamers on the rear 10/12/02. CP now owns these F9A's (Richard Croy)

Memorial in Riverview Park, Cuyahoga Falls, to the 43 persons who died in the July 31, 1940, crash of the PRR Doodlebug there (Richard Croy)

B&O's Capitol logo remains on the bridge carrying ex-B&O, now CSX tracks over Market St., Youngstown, near the Amtrak station. (Joe Assion)

Beaufort & Moorhead 1860 (FM H12-44) now is at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, 4/20/07 (Joe Assion)

Restored SCL caboose 0613 is one of the displays at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer 4/20/07 (Joe Assion)

Which do you like better? Two "flavors" of N&W C31 cabooses are on display at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer. 4/20/07 (Joe Assion)

NYC color-light interlocking home signal (now gone) at Berea, looking east. The area at the right was a local yard in 5/64 (Sheldon Lustig)

The General, of Civil War fame, made a stop in East Cleveland on 7/8/63 during a national tour (Sheldon Lustig)

Memorial at West Lafayette, near Coshocton, to the 33 PA National Guard soldiers who were killed in the 9/11/50 PRR troop train wreck (Shedon Lustig)

A second memorial to the 33 PA National Guardsmen who died in the 9/11/50 PRR troop train wreck at West Lafayette, near Coshocton (Sheldon Lustig)

In Oct., 1983, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic 4040 (ex-RDG 2-8-2) on an excursion from Akron to Willard is being turned there for the return. (Steve LaConte)

Back in the "good old days," Cuyahoga Valley Scenic ran 2-8-2 4070 on the valley run, here at Akron 8/7/82 waiting to go back north (Steve LaConte)

Cuyahoga Valley Scenic's 2-8-4 4070, now in rebuild, steams up near the old B&O coal tower in Akron before heading back north 7/26/81 (Steve LaConte)

Cuyahoga Valley Scenic 4070 (2-8-4) steams north out of the B&O Yard in Akron, under the Erie bridge, 7/26/81 (Steve LaConte)

Gone now, but in March, 1960, NKP still was operating Hulett ore unloadders at the Huron, OH, docks. (Glen Ayers photo, Steve LaConte collection)

CNW 413 and 409 (2 F7a) at the A&BBL shops in Barberton for work on these units 6/16/85 (Steve La Conte)

France Stone's "critter" was painted into Bicentennial scheme by Bellevue Boy Scouts in 1976. The loco now is at the Mad River Museum. (Steve LaConte)

Lenawee County RR 1 (Alco S-2), on display in Adrian, MI, was used until 1983 on a predecessor of the Adrian & Blissfield RR. (Steve LaConte)

Ex-MLW 740 (Fairbanks Morse H12-44) as it arrived at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 3/12/81 (Steve LaConte)

Milwaukee F7 82A at the Mad River & NKP Museum in Bellevue 10/20/84; unit later went to Orrville and then Ohio Central (Steve LaConte)

PennCentral 7 business car, priv ately owned, is at the Mad River & NKP Museum, Bellevue, 9/6/88, and it is still there today. (Steve LaConte)

Whitcomb 0154 center cab was used at the Pillsbury elevator in Huron 4/22/82. The elevator will be torn down in 2007 for condos. (Steve LaConte)

RE 1060 (S2). with a Whitcomb center cab, switches the Pillsbury elevator in Huron 4/22/82. The elevator is to be torn down in 2007. (Steve LaConte)

This is the old (pre-2006) paint scheme of Flats Industrial's 12 (SW9) at the road's office in downtown Cleveland. (Tom Boylan)

South Shore 802 "Little Joe" electric in Willard in the 1990's enroute to B&O Museum, now at the Lake Shore Railway Mus., North East, PA (Tom Boylan)

This big ex-PRR coal tipple still stands on NS' Columbus-Sandusky line at Harvey, north of Marion. It's impossible to tear it down. 6/07 (Tom Boylan)

Spencerville & Elgin RS3 606 is ex-Vermont RR, was sold to RJ Corman, then to Ohi-Rail, finally to Ohio Central and later scrapped. (Steve LaConte)

Somebody goofed! UP 2450 is off the track at GM Plant in Mira Loma, CA 6/17/05 (From internet via Kevin Tweed)