An Abandoned Railroad Branch Line in Chagrin Falls, Ohio

[@n.m.s7552]

Great video, keep these Northeast Ohio historical videos coming!

[@RailroadStreet]

Thanks so much! Oh, there's plenty more coming in the near future!

[@alishalama3650]

nlne thous anb nebrska66🛤 nine thousand🚂🚃

[@bobdivincenzo6995]

I hike the Chagrin Falls section of this trail a couple times a month at least. Last week Solon passed legislation to complete the trail from the river to SOM. It will be a great addition to the NE Ohio trail network!

[@BoxOfRain]

Great documentary! I grew up about a quarter mile from the track in Bentleyville and I remember the trains. I also remember unloading box cars of steel drums at the Mogul corporation in Chagrin Falls in the early 70s.

[@thomasflory6240]

Federal Mogul ?? I’m retired from there

[@BoxOfRain]

@@thomasflory6240 I don't think so - we made chemicals for boilers and cooling towers.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

Chagrin Falls, Ohio was where Calvin and Hobbes comics took place. You can see this in some of the comics.

[@louisaloi9178]

Used to work @ Solon's Carter Lumber where the railroad right of way runs right beside it and was once a customer of the railroad.Good video👍

[@Mr42960]

Very well done documentary. I grew up in Chagrin starting in the mid 60's on Bell St.

[@AutomobileAddiction]

Growing up in the 1980s, before the 422 freeway was built, we regularly drove through Chagrin Falls on the way from our family home on the east side of Cleveland to my grandmother's farm near Mantua. As a railfan and train nut from an early age, crossing the tracks in Chagrin Falls was one of my favorite parts of the trip. I always hoped I would see a train, of course, but I only remember it happening one time (probably due to the fact that we usually went on weekends). I couldn't believe the one time we had to wait for a train - it was a moment I had been hoping and waiting for for so long that it almost passed me by in my disbelief and surprise. I didn't get to see much (I wanted to get out of the car but my parents wouldn't let me), but from my recollection it looked like a hig nose GP9 (or similar shaped GP), black with the huge NW in white on the sides. Unless I am confusing it with other fleeting memories of seeing trains as a youth, is my recollection of this moment that sparked my fascination with both high hood diesels and the Norfolk and Western. I'm still waiting for a good N-scale GP9 model to be produced in this paint scheme. If someone familiar with the NW operations in that area in the 1980s can confirm or refute my memory, I would appreciate it. I would love to see some pictures from that period if any rail fans are out there. Thank you

[@rainyday44124]

Another great video... thanks! My son lived right next to the tracks on Pettibone Road in Glen Willow. The refuse company landlord razed that group of old Austin Powder homes a couple of years ago.

[@philpeters8200]

My father used to work for Chase Bag in the 50s. Maps still refer to Chase Bag upper and lower lakes. Cool spot and wish it could be put to better use. Thanks for the video.

[@trainnerd4350]

Just stumbled onto your channel and thoroughly enjoyed it! Subscribed! Well done!

[@drunta]

Your content continues to be stellar.

[@Lynchfan88]

Living here in Cleveland all my life and having been a rail fan for 40 or so years, I've always loved the tracks & spurs in Solon that N&W used to serve and now W&LE still serves many of those spurs. Love railfanning there. Really nice vid! I just subscribed to your channel.

[@neohiorailproductions7339]

Stellar work! Love these historical videos.

[@RailroadStreet]

Thank you!

[@jimbos3421]

That’s is one of the best documentary’s I’ve seen!

[@TrainsOhio]

Thanks for sharing the history!

[@RailroadStreet]

You are quite welcome!

[@poiu477]

Theres an historic line in Southern RI that used to go to Narragansett Pier that I've always been fascinated learning about.

[@hotrod347]

Would love it if you did a back history on the Erie Yards in Kent. Both where the roundhouse was by standing rock at the North end of town, and the shops where the old roundhouse used to be at the south end of town.

[@devynarnold6026]

I live by there! I explore the area so much, it’s such a nice spot Although recently it’s become a kind of camp for the homeless, but nonetheless, there’s evidence of the booming industrial era

[@nicholascrilow3968]

Very informative video, thank you. I live close by and I'm a railfan so I will definitely keep my eye out for these areas.

[@davevoss5519]

Used to put pennies on the old nickel plate line by E Washington St my kids played on the bridge by Eagles club

[@sebastianmarconi2855]

Incredible video!!

[@RailroadStreet]

Thanks Sebastian!

[@WilliamJPowers]

If you want to know what it was like to ride over this line while it was a railroad, find my article in Vintage Rails, No. 18, May-June 1999: "The Sub Run". The Chag Falls branch was a Sub-division in the eyes of the W&LE, and prior to that, by coincidence, the passenger trains from Cleveland-Vinegar Hill Depot to Chargin Falls were advertised as suburban service, or sub-runs to the crews.

[@michaelholmes6385]

Hometown of Bill Watterson, of Calvin and Hobbes fame. I grew up about 40 miles away, in the Mahoning Valley.

[@galenrichard5706]

Great video keep up the good work you can't erase history

[@redsky6292]

My friends built some bike jumps on the trail! I heled a little!

[@forgottenplaces9780]

You should do one on the pittsburgh and lake erie line that ran through youngstown, its crazy how many abandoned bridges and evevated track platforms just sit abandoned there

[@yusefendure]

Would you please do a video on the old railroad line that ran through Oberlin, OH? Oberlin station was a stop on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad from 1867 to 1914.

[@coleslawsalad823]

Ive lived in Bainbridge my whole life( town next to chagrin) and ive never knew about the railroad

[@austinmiller3497]

I will have to come up here sometime and hike this area

[@clevelandrailfan9776]

Great video

[@nkflimz]

You should do the B&O lake line, Im personally doing a project on it but it would be cool.

[@RailroadStreet]

Thanks for the suggestion! I already have that on my list of future topics to cover.

[@wavesnbikes]

So did the early Wheeling and Lake Erie venture into Chagrin Falls, even if it was just for scrapping?

[@blazinSpike]

Have you done the history of the Western Maryland railroad in Allegheny county Maryland

[@austinmiller3497]

Awesome are trains still using this today

[@RailroadStreet]

Not on the portion from Solon to Chagrin Falls. Wheeling & Lake Erie still runs from Falls Junction (Glenwillow) to the Solon Industrial Spur though.

[@austinmiller3497]

@@RailroadStreet Okay I figured I'd ask you

[@MrHondatrxex]

Maybe look into the lorain and west Virginia? Ran from wellington to lorain ohio. Yet never made it to west Virginia.

[@johnwood2788]

You got on a thing wrong. The nkp did not own the w&le. It was a leased.

[@wheeling827]

Nice video! I live about 10 minutes from Chagrin. Also, were you salamander078?

[@RailroadStreet]

Yes, I changed the channel's name.

[@mylesspear]

Can you do a video on the stretch of old Erie track between Akron and Kent?

[@RailroadStreet]

Sure! I'll add it to my list of future video topics.

[@mylesspear]

@@RailroadStreet cool! Thanks!

[@trekzilladmc]

The birthplace of Calvin and Hobbes!

[@ryansansom6901]

Excellent video. Soon this line will be completely erased as new developments destroy the old ROW.

[@RailroadStreet]

Thank you! Unfortunately, you are correct about the ROW eventually disappearing.

[@evil1by1]

Good. Once the stated purpose of a right of way ceases to exist, the right way needs to revert back to the landowners. Right if ways are an absolute nightmare to live with.

[@sammolloy1]

Not only did they not pay the contractors, they didn’t even pay the printer for printing the worthless bonds!!!

[@thecivilwarguy3674]

My Step Family Were The Major Families in Ohio, half my family’s blood with them. They were the Whitesburg family the ones that owned the lumber company, then the Harris and Gardner family are also related to me through marriage but rest of my family is blood

[@georgesmith8113]

👍👊😎

[@bobbietrew4609]

why prounounce it "Shiggrin Falls"? Been in area off and on all my life and it is pronounced Sha-GRIN emphasis on 2nd syllable. otherwise very interesting.

[@wno1043]

It's not pronounced, "Sugarin Falls" It's Chagrin Falls. Pronounced just like it's spelled.