Anyone who has trivaled the ohio turnpike has noticed all the bridges going over abandoned rights of way. Now me and a few friends were pondering over the question "who owned those lines and when were they removed?" Now the only one we have identifyed so far was the one betwen the huge bridge over the Cuyahoga River and the exit for Ohio Route 8 thats now a bike trail. Its history is former Conrail (NYC, PC) abandoned around the 1980's. Can anyone help us out and identify the rest. ------------------ NARA member #20
Can't help you with this one ... I've never been there. But wanted to let you know that someone has read this. ------------------ Bill (#16) "Get Goosed on the Yreka Western"
Well I wasn't expecting to see many replys but any help would be usefull. We now have tallyed 3 other lines up. ------------------ NARA member #20
I remeber vey well going over it on My way to the 1998 Pepsi 400 in Michigan. There were at least five places where the turnpike went over CSX,Conrail and NS trackage. Ok,one of them is a CSX branch line that,then, saw a local train (one daily)that went from Loraine,OH to lester,OH and made up it's returning train then set out cars to join a freight to Rock Castle,PA . and then it set out witha couple more cars on to the main there to Sterling,OH. Another one was I think was the entrance to a relatively busy "flat" yard. I think it is owned by CSX because I saw a coal train heading out of that yard(southward) with the cars either conrail or CSX. It had 3 SD40-2 on the front all CSX. rest of that I could see and remeber were Either Conrail Or Norfolk Southern mainlines, I saw a covered hopper train and a mixed freight on 2 other mainlines the tour bus crossed, That's all I can accurately remember. I don't recall any abanoed rights of ways,but one, You could see a path of gravel for as far as You could see in a sraightline. Please note this is all looking northward, coming back Sunday night, we took a different route and didn't go back the same way. We almost missed the start of the BGN race because of the construction on the turnpike. Hope this helps,---pat ------------------ TrainBoard.com MEMBER#204 N.A.R.A. Member #8 THE-WEB-PAGE-IS-NOW- UPDATED!! Appalachian & Atlantic Model Railroad "QUALITY at WORK with SAFETY in MIND" [This message has been edited by wt&c (edited 30 January 2001).]
When you travel it as much as I did before I moved (2 or more times a month) you began to notice and wonder about things ------------------ LONG LIVE THE CHESSIE SYSTEM!!! Maumee & Cuyahoga Rail System/Chessie System. Your Purr-fect Rail Trafic Solution!!! NARA member ... soon (Some miscomunication betwen members needs to be dealt with)
