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| Author: | robertmacdowell [ Mon May 18, 2009 10:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Toledo Angola & Western |
What ever happened to the Toledo, Angola and Western? They were a northside-Toledo electric railway preservation group. (I'm not referring to the prior steam road of the same name.) They had re-electrified about a mile of track in northwest Toledo. Where did the people go? Where did the equipment go? |
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| Author: | Frank Hicks [ Tue May 19, 2009 10:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Toledo Angola & Western |
robertmacdowell wrote: What ever happened to the Toledo, Angola and Western? They were a northside-Toledo electric railway preservation group. (I'm not referring to the prior steam road of the same name.) They had re-electrified about a mile of track in northwest Toledo. Where did the people go? Where did the equipment go? I believe the group in question was also known as the Waterfront Electric. That group sold (or maybe sold use of) their ROW and was able to use the proceeds to move to Grand Rapids, OH and construct some track and a couple of barns. I believe this was in the early or mid-1990's. Some of the equipment is still there, under the Grand Rapids Electric Railway name, though quite a bit has been sold or given to other preservation organizations including Northern Ohio Railway Museum. As for equipment, the only two pieces of traction equipment that I know for certain to have been owned by Waterfront Electric were CTA "L" car 4267, now owned by NORM and not accessioned (though they have plans to make it into a visitor center of some sort), and C&LE/American Aggregates freight motor 640, which is at IRM and currently tarped. There was also a critter of some sort, maybe a GE 25-tonner, that they had and I'm not sure what happened to that. More info on the onetime GRER collection (not including 640, which was sold before leaving Toledo) can be found by clicking here. |
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