Wasn't it the Akron secondary that served the big Euclid construction machinery plant (Later Terex Corporation) in Hudson? I (and my dad before me) had many loads of big construction machinery (off highway mining and construction trucks, motor scrapers, bulldozers, payloaders, etc.) shipped from there to Paterson, New Jersey, from 1962 - 1975, where we received and off-loaded them and either drove them over the road to our yard in Wallington (if they were rubber tired) or by trailer if on "cat" tracks. John Payne "J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_bluemoon.net> wrote: Dale and list, That's on the ex-PRR Akron Secondary that ran from Hudson to Orrville. The closest it got to the EL was at JO interlocking in Akron where the joint B&O/PRR crossed the EL. The dinner train will start about 5 track miles from JO and runs north away from there. It's really been a huge NIMBY battle for this dinner train. They threw every roadblock they could in the way and the court finally told them to go suck eggs, the MRTA had every right to lease the track to the dinner train. As an off-topic aside, back on July 31, 1940 there was a horrific PRR crash near the Front St grade crossing in Cuyahoga Falls. The Hudson-Akron commuter doodlebug ran head on into a freight train. There's a memorial marker there today. Henry J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon Internet Corp Network Administrator www.bluemoon.net Internet Access & Web Hosting www.railfan.net Railfan Network Services - --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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