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The Lake Erie and Pittsburg Railway

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The Lake Erie and Pittsburg Railway
Posted by brimac1970 on Monday, February 14, 2011 7:43 PM

 Looking for photos of this line while it was still in operation. I have found a good history of how it came to be built and why it was pulled up but that is about it. It seems to be a very mysterious portion of rail due to the lack of photography of. If you are not familiar with the line, it was a jointly owned bridge route of the NYC/PRR but only used by the NYC and it ran from a connection on the NYC Cleveland Short Line at Marcy (now Cuyahoga Hts., OH) to a connection with PRR at Brady Lake, Ohio and was started by the LS&MS and ended by PC around '68. I have walked most of this route as a trail and any input to put things into perspective  would be appreciated.

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Posted by WMNB4THRTL on Monday, February 14, 2011 10:21 PM

First of all, Welcome to the forums!

I think this link might help you, I hope.


http://www.plerrhs.org/

Good luck.

Nance-CCABW/LEI 

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” --Will Rogers

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right! --unknown

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Posted by brimac1970 on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:20 PM

thanks for the info but this railroad was confused with the P&LE even when it was still in operation, it was a different rail line.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:31 PM

This website has no photos, but lots of docs from the PC and predecessors, esp. in Ohio:

http://www.multimodalways.org/archives/rrs/rrs.html 

Local and county historical societies ?  Local newspaper archives in local libraries ?

ICC Valuation reports often had photos of structures and sometimes rolling stock.

Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series of books ?  See - http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/

- Paul North.

"This Fascinating Railroad Business" (title of 1943 book by Robert Selph Henry of the AAR)

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