[PRCo] Re: TRACING TROLLEY R_O_W

[Bob Rathke]

When I lived in Lakewood, Ohio in the 1960's, I was fascinated by the wide
"parkways" - grass areas between the sidewalks and the street - along
Clifton Blvd. there.  I was told that these grass areas were previously
trolley ROW.  At that time, remnants of Cleveland trolley tracks and loops
were also visible on the West Side if you know where to look for them.

Bob 1/15/04

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From: <rogertrolley.1 at juno.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: TRACING TROLLEY R_O_W


>
> I unfortunatly ,live in Kalifornia (Gov.Swartzeneger country) but make a
yearly trek back there to see PTM,Model Trolley Meets,KIDS AND GRANDKIDS in
Mass. The Cleveland or Trolleyvile Model Trolley meet made me look up Lake
Shore Elec. R-O-W as did the last trip thru West Penn territory where all
sorts of R-O-W exists. I am a tracer type when it comes to old R-O-W's. Lake
Shore Elec.Ry. ,by the way, to include Pittsburgh area,became a bus
operation after 1938 and actually had an interstate line with orange buses
that came to Pittsburgh. Probably people were mystified to see a Lake Shore
Lines bus so far from any lake of any size!! Any way, LSE left Cleveland on
Clifton Blvd to Rocky River then paralleld roads to Lorain. Ceylon Jct
station is still there as is Vermillion,in the center of town after
paralleling CSX ? RR. Was a bank but now something else. Power lines are a
good indicator sometimes of carlines former path. West Penn sure followed
them ! The road leading down to!
>  Beach Park is called Interurban Blvd and the former R-)-Wjust south of
main road. Didn't go beyond Celon Jct. where line was along the lake shore
north of main road. Line to Norwalk went south from there across the main
road. You can drive up private driveway there to see station(an ugly cement
block bldg with the name on it,so close to lake it may disappear one of
these winters! Just tell the people there what you are doing!! All the still
pix I took on this trip were destroyed by airlplane x-ray as I stupidly put
them in the suitcase so need to come back and re-do this trip. CHEERS
Rogertrolley PS my video footage of Trolleyville etc survived ,including
footage of their PRC car running along their line.
RR