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(erielack) Worked On The Railroad CLP&E

List,

This is a bit of tongue and cheek - CLP&E wasn't a real railroad.

Back in the early seventies I was a volunteer for the Conneaut Lake Park & 
Eastern RR. Some of you from the Penn-Ohio area may remember this - that is, if 
your old enough. 

This was the operation of the Midwest Railway Historical Foundation out of 
the Cleveland - Akron area. Power was ex-GTW 2-8-2 #  4070. The railroad was 
operated on the Conneaut Lake Park Branch of the Bessemar & Lake Erie RR. The 
line ran from Lynce's Junction on the Bessemer's Meadville Branch to Conneaut 
Lake Park, a distance of about 1.4 miles.

Here's the EL content - At one time the Erie used the Meadville Branch as a 
second mainline. Also, up in the park at one time were six? tracks for 
excursion trains from the B&LE, PRR, Erie, NYC, and B&O. If you have ever been there, 
this was near the corousel parking lot, where some cottages were.  I think the 
Erie used to have their company picnics there. 

There was also a tower and a water tank there at one time. The park was 
originally owned by the Bessemer

Rick Fleischer
ELHS  1426
Cortland, Oh.


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