CLEVELAND
RAILROAD CLUB BULLETIN
MEETING ON THE THIRD FRIDAY OF
EACH MONTH IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DOLLAR BANK,
15509 MADISON AVENUE, LAKEWOOD, OHIO
Meeting Room Opens at 7:30PM and meeting begins
at 8:00 PM
----------VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME!-----------
President: Robert Weisenberger: Vice President: Charles
Christian: Treasurer: Ronald
Leitch; Secretary: Mark Adamcik: Trustees: Gary Dillon, Chris
Vlisides, Richard Novak
-AUGUST-
PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST
18TH
Once again Don Woods will present another program of slides.
These are some that he has not shown in prior shows. Don always
puts on a good show. Come and see.
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF
JULY 21st
Meeting called to order at 8:18 PM by President
Robert Wiesenberger. Minutes were approved as printed in the
bulletin. Treasurers report for June; Beginning balance $864.55.
Income, none; Expenses $36.00. Ending balance $828.55. There were
no guests and no new applications for membership on file. Under
Old Business, Dave McKay reports that the proposed picnic site at
the Cuyahoga Valley requires a reservation fee. William Dietrich
reports that Vermillion City Park is free and is located along
the former NYC mainline (Conrail and Norfolk Southern) Vote was
9-0 in favor of Vermillion Park. Date was set for August 19th at
2 PM. (See further details later in Bulletin). Vote was 8-0 in
favor of the club providing the food. Under Old Business, Robert
Wiesenberger expressed his view points on the proposed airport
rapid line extension. Dave Mangold discussed the club's proposed
website. Dave and Mark Adamcik are to put together a proposal.
The fee will be $100 for setup plus a maintenance fee. Meeting
adjourned at 9:01 PM. - Mark J. Adamcik, Secretary.
RAILNEWZ BY MARK;
RTA will purchase 18 new Freeway Flyer busses. Amtrak; June
ridership up 8 percent. Revenues up 13 percent. Sales for the
month totaled 102 million.
CLUB PICNIC;
The picnic this year will be held on Saturday, August 19th, the
day after our club meeting. It will be held at Victory Park in
Vermillion. This park is immediately South and adjacent to the
former NYC/Conrail mainline. It is a very nice park. There is
asphalt parking for many cars right along the tracks. The old
Vermillion station is immediately adjacent but now appears to be
used for part of a Catholic school. There is also plent of
parking on Route 60 adjacent. The park has a large stand in the
center, and has several grills and many picnic tables available.
It also has a very pretty floral section. Route 60 crosses the
tracks and there are crossing gates on each side. The lowering of
these will give us advance notice of coming trains. Immediately
on the other North side of the tracks is downtown Vermillion to
which one can visit. It is a very pretty area. The railroad
tracks are easily and quick accessible with plenty side area and
one can see down the tracks in both ways making it easy to take
photographs. The best way to get to Victory Park is to take
freeway Route 90 which becomes freeway Route 2 West to the Route
60 interchange. There is a rest stop on Route 2 just before you
get there. Its a mile or so drive North on Route 60 with a short
jog in Vermillion and the park is immediately on the right. You
can't miss it. The picnic will start at 2 PM and last until 6 PM.
Our famous club chef, Bruce Young will begin grilling his famous
hamburgers and hot dogs at about 3 PM, for which we wish to thank
him. The club will provide the food including pop. However you
are welcome to bring along any food you wish to share with the
others. This is a new place for our picnic this year, and a
longer drive than the previous place but it's well worth it.
HERE AND THERE;
On your club roster, which was sent along with the Bulletin last
week please make the following address change. Douglas W. McClean
has a new address as follows; 27097 Oakwood Circle, #107
"Z", Olmstead Falls, Ohio 44138. Same phone number
(440) 235-2224. From member Bill Vigrass in New Jersey comes the
following; "One item in the July bulletin rang a bell in my
memory. The Rockport, Norwalk and Sandusky sounded familiar. I
believe it was formed when I was in Lakewood High School in
1945-48. That was when HO guage ran on 6 volts DC. I occasionally
attended meetings, but I stayed with "O" guage and 18
volts AC. I still have the same motor units and they run well on
12 volt DC." RTA's new buses will have upholstered high back
seats that recline, individual reading lights and overhead
storage racks, everything you need for long distance travel. But
these busses will only take passengers to work. RTA trustees
agreed to buy; 23 diesel "suburban coaches" to use on
express routes between downtown and park and ride lots. The 40ft
vehicles set a new standard of luxury for RTA. The fare will
still be the same to ride these luxury busses but the price of
each bus will be $367,090 apiece for a total of $8.44 million.
That's $128,000 more per vehicle than the regular busses, 19 of
which the RTA just ordered. The luxury busses will be on the road
in about 6 months and the regular ones will join the fleet next
summer. It is said that the new luxury busses will be a good deal
because their stainless steel construction should keep them on
the road for 20 years as opposed to the usual 12 years, and
should be easier to maintain. The federal government will pay 80
percent of the cost of the new busses. On August 26th a special
train will be operated from Canton, Ohio to the Lorain County
Fair in Wellington. The train will back into the Orville branch
to pick up passengers there. Train to leave Canton at 8 AM with
expected time of arrival at fair at about 12 noon. Information
from Orrville Railroad Heritage Society, phone (330) 683-2426 or
web, www.orrvillerailroad.com.
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