Riding Amtrak's LSL this past weekend, I spotted this handsome structure. Next to it was a green coach with the words "Berea, Ohio" below the windows.

Who owns the depot and what is its current use?

tmanz@afo.net

Our family used to own the quarry in Berea before the locals emminant domained it. Last time I was there in 1985, one of the depots was being used as a restaurant called "Pufferbelly's". I seem to recall there is a passenger car there. Nice adaptive reuse of the old structure.

> Riding Amtrak's LSL this past weekend, I
> spotted this handsome structure. Next to it
> was a green coach with the words
> "Berea, Ohio" below the windows.

> Who owns the depot and what is its current
> use?


Dallas 2002 ARM Convention - October 23-26, 2002 -
tnold@bigfoot.com

The restaurant was still going as of about two years ago, and was pretty good and reasonable. Also a good place to foam over the former Big Four and Lake Shore mainlines. The passenger car is a former PRR heavyweight parlor/diner or some similar combination, without its interior but otherwise well-preserved. Some of its interior hardware and a lot of NYC memorabilia are on display in the restaurant.

Aarne Frobom
The Steam Railroading Institute
P. O. Box 665
Owosso, Michigan 48867

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froboma@mdot.state.mi.us

The Pufferbelly also runs a restaurant in the former Erie station in Kent, Ohio. The food is good and the displays inside are interesting. Outside the former Erie main is now run by the Wheeling & Lake Erie. I have been there many times over the last 10 years and have never seen a train on it. The B&O has a line next to the Erie that is very busy, but it is at a lower elevation so you only see the tops of cars going by.

Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Peservation Society
tstuy@eldcps.org