(rshsdepot) RSHS Convention, Northeast Ohio, June 1-4 2007

[jdent1_@_optonline.net]

The next Bulletin is at the printer now and should arrive into members mailboxes within a week to 10 days.  

The Bulletin mailing will also include the convention registration, however it is also online for those who want to get a head start on planning.

Go to http://www.rrshs.org/ and click on "Conventions" for the registration.

Join us this June for 3-4 days of exploring the railroad history of the northeastern counties of Ohio including the metropolitan areas of Akron, Cleveland, and Youngstown. The registration fee includes 3 days (Friday-Sunday) of motor coach travel, cold beverages on the bus trips, a convention tour book, and a Saturday evening banquet. Optional is an additional day (Monday) of railroad photography by shared expense carpool. You must be a member of the Railroad Station Historical Society to participate; please note that non-member registration includes a yearly membership.

Our convention hotel and the site of the banquet is the Holiday Inn-Hudson conveniently located at Exit 180 of the Ohio Turnpike (I-80). The hotel is just northwest of this interchange at 240 Hines Hill Road. The Holiday Inn-Hudson has granted us a special room rate of $62.00 plus tax for a one or two double bed room until May 24, 2007. You are responsible for making your own room reservations at 330-653-9191. Just be certain to tell the hotel you are attending the RSHS Convention to receive the special rate. If you have special needs please inform the hotel and convention organizers. The hotel has a full service restaurant and lounge. Numerous restaurants and shopping areas are located within easy driving distance both north and south of the hotel. 

The Northeast Ohio RSHS Convention will offer 3 days of organized field excursions by motor coach to photograph and visit railroad and interurban depots, railroad towers, engine facilities, and significant railroad bridges between Cleveland and Akron and the Pennsylvania border. The optional Monday tour, by private car, will visit sites between the western suburbs of Cleveland and Akron and Sandusky and Bellevue. As is traditional we will carpool and share gas expenses. The bus trips will leave the hotel probably by 7:30 and return by 6 each day. Lunch stops will be planned. Pop and water will be available on the bus.

Friday's tour will crisscross former lines of the B&O, Erie, LS&MS, and W&LE and the interurban Cleveland & Eastern winding across the glaciated hills of the northeastern counties to the lakeshore at Conneaut. After a lunch time visit to the Conneaut Railroad Museum and Conneaut Area Historical Society facility in Conneaut housed in the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern passenger and freight depots the bus will follow the former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern (New York Central) and Nickel Plate (N&W) mainlines west to the eastern suburbs of Cleveland. The day's activities should net about 25 depots and a number of other structures. At 8PM Friday an optional "dinner in the depot" is tentatively scheduled at the Pufferbelly Restaurant in the former Atlantic & Great Western depot in Kent. We will carpool from the hotel.

On Saturday, RSHS members will board the bus for a roundabout trip to Youngstown and back. Depots along the Pennsylvania, Erie, and B&O will be visited, including Hudson, Aurora, Mantua, and Newton Falls. Depots of the B&O. Erie, and, Pennsylvania remain in Youngstown. The day will wind up in Kent with opportunities to photograph the B&O, Erie, and W&LE depots before returning to our hotel and getting ready for the Annual Banquet. We should be able to record about 20 structures if we maintain our schedule. A presentation on Northeast Ohio depots will end the evening.

Sunday's trip will mainly focus on Cleveland and Akron. We'll first head to the suburbs of Cleveland to photograph W&LE depots at Falls Junction and Bedford and then into downtown Cleveland to photograph remaining depots, towers, and some impressive bridges. After lunch we will head up the Cuyahoga Valley eventually arriving in Akron to photograph what's left. Altogether, probably another 20 structures are possible by day's end.

For those able to stay the additional day we will visit depots and other structures along mainly the Nickel Plate, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and the interurban Lake Shore Electric between Cleveland and Sandusky. A visit to the Bellevue Railroad Museum may also be an option. 


Jim Dent
Oakland, NJ
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