Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies

NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations Akron Railroad Club Beaver-Lawrence Railway Historical Society http://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/ http://www.beavervalleyjunction.org/ meets on the fourth Friday of every month except December at the Meetings generally take place the second Saturday of every month. New Horizons Christian Church, 290 Darrow Road, in Akron, Ohio. West Pittsburg Station Meetings begin at 8 p.m 2114 Rt. 168 Box 429 President: Craig Sanders, 3495 West Pittsburg, Pa. 16160-0405 Silsby Road, University Heights, OH 44118, [email protected] Bedford Historical Society http://www.bedfordohiohistory.org Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Historical Society Collection includes construction documents for Tinkers Creek http://www.acyhs.org/ Viaduct. Manages 1882 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad depot P.O. Box 196, PO Box 46282, Bedford OH 44146. Sharon Center, Ohio 44274, (440) 232-0796 330-867-6990 Mondays,Wednesdays, 7:30 to All Aboard Ohio 10:00 PM; Thursdays 10:00 http://www.allaboardohio.org/ AM to 4:00 PM, second advocate for better passenger rail services in Ohio Sunday, 2:00 to 5:00 PM. 309 South 4th Street, Suite 304, Bucyrus Model Railroad Association Columbus, OH 43215 (614) 228 Byesville Scenic Railway -6005 http://www.bsrw.org/ AMTRAK weekend excursions. http://www.amtrak.com PO Box 254, Byesville, OH 43723 Byesville, OH 1-800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245) Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society regularly scheduled passerger http://www.cohs.org/ service throughout the USA. 2 daily trains through Cleveland. 312 E Ridgeway Street, Clifton Forge, VA AMTRAK Historical Society Cincinnati Railroad Club http://www.amtrakhistoricalsociety.com/ http://www.cincinnatirrclub.org/ P.O. Box 7436, Chicago, Illinois 60680-7436 club meets on the First Thursday of each month at 7:30pm in Tower A of the Cincinnati Union Terminal Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson Railroad PO Box 14157, Museum Center at Cincinnati http://www.acjrailroad.com/ Cincinnati, OH 45250-0157, Union Terminal Operates former New York Central branch. Phone: (513) 651-RAIL (7245) 122 East Walnut St. Jefferson, OH Depot PO Box 517 Thursday 8PM - 11PM, Jefferson, OH 44047-0517 Saturday 10AM - 4PM, and the First & Third Sunday of each Father's Day through end of month 12PM - 4PM October CJ Trains Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Historical Society http://cjtrains.com/ http://www.borhs.org/ sponsors Train & Toy Shows P.O. Box 24225 Baltimore, MD 21227 Jon and Cathi Ulbright, 941 Buchholz Drive, Beaver County Model Railroad & Historical Society Wooster, Ohio 44691, http://bcmrr.railfan.net/ (330) 262-7488 [email protected] THE UNION ATLANTIC RAILROAD, an HO scale model railroad bridge route 416 Sixth St., Monica, PA 15061

Printed on 3/12/2009 www.noars.org/orgs.htm Page 1 NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations Cleveland & Eastern Interurban Historical Society and Conrail Technical Society Museum http://www.trainweb.org/crts/ http://www.trainweb.org/ceihsm CRTS Membership, P.O. Box 34, Chardon, Ohio 44024 P.O. Box 7140-W, Garden City, NY 11530-7140 Cleveland Public Library http://www.cpl.org/ Crawford County Historical Society extensive collection includes railroad books, photos and maps. Many http://www.crawfordhistorical.org/ older materials are in storage and must be requested in advance. A&GW/Erie records including accident and freight car transportation Main Library, 325 Superior Ave., N. invoices. Records not currently available to the public. E., Helene Barco-Duratz Cultural Cleveland, OH 44114 Center (216) 623-2800 411 Chestnut Street Meadville, PA 16335 9:00am - 6:00pm Monday - (814) 724-6080 Saturday. 1:00-5:00pm Sundays (except Summer) Cuyahoga County Engineer Cleveland State University Special Collections Library http://www.cuyctyengineers.org/ http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/ 2100 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, Houses Cleveland area railroad collections including Cleveland Ohio 44113,(216) 348-3824 Union Terminal, Nickel Plate Road and Erie Lackawanna. Cleveland Cuyahoga Valley & West Shore Model Railroad Club Press photo and clippings collection. Cleveland Memory online http://www.trainweb.org/cvandws/ Cleveland State University Library, HO and Lionel layouts. 1877 Depot. Rhodes Tower 321, 2121 Euclid Avenue 440-235-6566 Olmsted Falls Depot, 25802 Cleveland, OH 44115. Garfield Avenue, Olmsted (216) 687-2449 Falls, OH 44138 Monday through Friday Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, http://www.cvsr.com/ 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM operates former B&O line from Independence to Peninsula, Akron Cleveland Train Shows, Inc. and Canton. http://www.cleveshows.com/ P.O. Box 158, Bob Frieden, [email protected] Peninsula, OH 44264. 1-800-468 -4070, Conneaut Railroad Museum (330)-657-2000 http://www.conneauthistorical.org/ Museaum of the Conneaut Area Historical Society regularly scheduled 363 Depot St., Conneaut, OH 44030 Cuyahoga Valley Terminal Model Railroad Club Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, http://www.cuyahogavalleyterminal.org/ 12:00 to 5:00 P.M. Memorial Day layout in the basement of the Whistle Stop Hobby Shop to Labor Day 2146 Front St, Cuyahoga Conrad & Dowdell Productions Falls, OH 44221 http://conraddowdell.com Dennison Railroad Museum Organizes Model Railroad and Toy Shows http://www.dennisondepot.org/ 9047 Kennard Road, Restored depot museum Lodi, Ohio 44254, (330) 948-4400 Email: [email protected], Toll Free: 400 Center Street, Dennison, Conrail Historical Society 1-877-278-8020 Ohio 44621 http://www.thecrhs.org/ Tuesday - Saturday 222 South Main Street, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, Marysville, PA 17053 Sundays 11:00 am to 3:00 pm

Printed on 3/12/2009 www.noars.org/orgs.htm Page 2 NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations East Canton Railroad Club Greenburg Train Shows FirstMerit Citizens National http://www.greenbergshows.com/ Bank, 308 E. Gorgas St., 1393 Progress Way, Suite 907 Louisville, OH Eldersburg, MD 21784 Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society Greenville Railroad Park & Museum http://www.eldcps.org http://www.greenvilletrainmuseum.org/ 201 South Blakely Street #333, Union RR Engine 604, Ore Car, Caboose, museum. Dunmore, Penn. 18512, 314 Main Street [email protected] Greenville, PA 16125 Erie Lackawanna Historical Society (724) 588-4009 http://www.erielackhs.org/ afternoons daily during Membership Chair Randy Dettmer, summer. weekends only in 290 Prospect Street, May, June, September and Hudson, OH 44236-2240 October Heart of Willoughby Forest City Division Railroad Enthusiasts http://www.heartofwilloughby.com http://www.trainweb.org/fcdrre/ Meets 2nd Friday of month at Parma Memorial Hall, 6617 Ridge 12 Public Square, Willoughby, Ohio Road, Parma, OH 44094 [email protected] Jerry Jordak Hocking Valley Scenic Railway Fostoria Area Visitors Bureau http://www.hvsry.org/ http://www.visitfostoria.com/fostoriaTrains.htm PO Box 427, Nelsonville, OH Nelsonville Depot, 33 E. 45764, 1-800-967-7834 Canal Street on U.S. Route 33 "Iron Triangle" a unique train intersection where as many as 160 in Nelsonville, Ohio trains pass through every 24 hours. 128 W. North St., Fostoria, OH Weekends April - December 44830 Indiana Historical Society (419)-436-2282 http://www.indianahistory.org/ Fostoria Rail Preservation Society Midwest Railroad Research Center http://www.fostoriairontriangle.com/ PO Box 664118 "Iron Triangle" a unique train intersection where as many as 160 Indianapolis, IN 46266-4118 trains pass through every 24 hours. Jefferson Depot, Inc. PO Box 421, Fostoria, Ohio 44830 http://www.jeffersondepotvillage.org/ Golden Spike Enterprises Restored 1872 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Station http://www.gserr.com P. O. Box 22, Jefferson, OH 44047, 147 East Jefferson Street, sponsors Railroad Model & Artifact Shows (440) 293-5532 Jefferson, OH Gordon Hartranft Tours every Sunday, 1 to 4 p. see Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson 58 Creed Circle m. during June, July, August Railroad Campbell, OH 44405 and September. 330 755 1914 Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum Great Lakes Division Train Collectors Association http://www.johnsonshawmuseum.org/ http://www.tcamembers.org/newsandevents/meets.htm Stereoscopic photos from the Keystone View Company - includes Parent organization operates the National Toy Train Museum in railroad subjects. Strasburg, PA 423 Chestnut Street John Carlisle, President, Meadville, PA 16335 419-994-4759 (814) 333-4326 [email protected] Wednesday thru Saturday afternoons. Sunday April - October only. Printed on 3/12/2009 www.noars.org/orgs.htm Page 3 NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations Kent Historical Society Mad River & NKP Museum http://www.kentohiohistory.org/ http://www.madrivermuseum.org/ Preserved 1875 Erie railroad station in Kent. Mad River & NKP Railroad Society, 253 Southwest Street in 234 S. Water Street, Inc. Bellevue, Ohio P.O. Box 663 233 York Street Kent, Ohio, 44240 Bellevue, Ohio 44811-1377 [email protected] Museum Hours:Thursday, Friday: 12:00 to 4:00 pm 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday: OPEN DAILY Memorial Day 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Labor Day (May, September and October Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum Open on Weekends Only) http://www.toyandtrain.com/ Mahoning Valley Railroad Heritage Association Located in a restored Victorian-era schoolhouse, the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum features interactive displays, operating O and http://www.mvrha.org/ HO gauge train layouts, a unique and family friendly gift shop, a formed in 1985 to preserve the railroading history and heritage of the (304)242-8133 or Toll Free 1-877 144 Kruger Street Mahoning Valley in Ohio. largest collection of steel industry rail -242-8133 Wheeling, West Virginia equipment in the United States. 26003 P.O. Box 3055, Youngstown, Ohio 44511 9 AM - 5 PM Daily Memorial Day - December, Weekends Marion Union Station Association only January - Memorial Day. http://www.mariononline.com/agencies/MUSA.htm Lake Shore Electric Railway and Trolleyville USA Marion area citizens dedicated to purchasing and restoring the http://www.lsery.org/ historic Marion depot. P. O. Box 94124, Cleveland, Ohio 740-383-3768 532 W Center, Marion Oh 44101-6124 43302 Midwest Railway Preservation Society Lake Shore Live Steamers http://www.midwestrailway.org/ http://www.lakeshorelivesteamers.com/home.shtml P. O. Box 382, Cuyahoga Falls, OH Maintenance and preservation Penitentiary Glen, 44222-0382. 216-781-3629 every Saturday at 8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd., Roundhouse, 2800 W. 3rd Kirtland, Ohio 44094 Street, Cleveland, OH National Model Railroad Association scheduled public operations on the http://www.nmra.org/ Glen, Meadow, and Orchard Rail A.C. Kalmbach Memorial Library Road 4121 Cromwell Rd.,, Chattanooga, Lake Shore Railway Association TN 37421. (423) 892-2846 http://www.lakeshorerailway.org/ National Railway Historical Society PO Box 1131, Elyria, OH 44036 L&WV Railway Station, http://www.nrhs.com/ -1131 Route 18, Wellington, OH National Office and Library Saturday & Sundays through first P.O. Box 58547 100 North 17th Street weekend in November Philadelphia, PA 19102-8547. (215) Philadelphia, PA 19103 Lorain County Model Railroad Association 557-6606 http://connottonvalleyrr.tripod.com/lcmra/ New York Central Railroad Museum http://www.nycrrmuseum.org/ PO Box 1708,721 South Main St., Elkhart, IN. 46515. (574) 294-3001 Tuesday - Saturday, 10am to 4pm Sundays, Noon - 4pm

Printed on 3/12/2009 www.noars.org/orgs.htm Page 4 NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations New York Central System Historical Society Northeastern Ohio Railroad Historical Society http://www.nycshs.org/ Meets the third Saturday of each month at Rootstown Firestation at NYCSHS, Dept. W, Post Office Box 6:30pm 81184, Cleveland, OH 44181-0184 Dave Mangold, [email protected] Nickel Plate Historical and Technical Society http://www.nkphts.org/ Northern Ohio Association Of Railroad Societies NKPHTS, Inc., PO Box 381, New http://www.noars.org Haven IN 46774-0381 Meets the third Monday of each month (except December) usually at the Brecksville Public LIbrary at 7:30 PM NMRA Akron-Canton-Youngstown Division Cleveland State University Library http://div1-mcr-nmra.org/ Special Collections Meets typically the third Sunday of each month from October University Library Rhodes Tower through May skipping December. Locations varies. Check website 201 A for specific locations and dates. Cleveland, Ohio 44114

NMRA Buckeye Division 6 Northern Ohio Railway Museum http://div6-mcr-nmra.org/Welcome_Page.html http://www.trainweb.org/norm/ Meets third Sunday of the Month PO Box 458, Chippewa Lake, Ohio 5515 Buffman Road, NMRA Keystone Division 2 44215-0458. 330-769-5501 Chippewa Lake, Oh http://www.KeystoneDivision.org Public Walking Tours in Meets third Sunday of the Month at 2:30 Chippewa Lake. Saturdays, Spring through Fall, 10 am to 5 NMRA Mid-Central Region pm. Open to all visitors. http://www.midcentral-region-nmra.org/ Media Nights. 1st Friday of the National Model Railroad Association region that includes Ohio. Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation, Inc. Sponsors Annual regional convention. [email protected] http://www.nworrp.org Nmra North Coast Division 4 Quarter-scale steam train rides. B&O caboose tours on first Sunday. HO layout. Museum in progress. http://www.div4.org/ 419-423-2995 11600 County Rd. 99, Meets second Friday at 7:45 pm (except July and August) at Church Findlay OH 45840 (I-75 Exit of the Redeemer, 23500 Center Ridge Road, Westlake Ohio #161) Sat/Sun from April - December. NMRA Western Reserve Division Norwalk & Western Railroad http://www.mcr5.org/ Meets first friday of each Month usually at Hambden Town Hall, http://www.norwalkandwesternrr.com/ 13887 GAR Highway (Rt. 6), Chardon, Ohio Model Railroad Club PO Box 938, Norwalk, OH. 419-668 -3241 NRHS Conneaut Chapter Norfolk & Western Historical Society http://www.nrhs.com/chapters/conneaut.htm http://www.nwhs.org/ Meets 1st Mon 7:30 (Ex Jan Feb) at Conneaut RR Museum, 363 PO Box 13908 / Roanoke, VA Depot St., Conneaut, OH 44030 24038 PO Box 643, Conneaut, OH 44030 Northeastern Ohio Live Steamers -0643 http://livesteamohio.homestead.com/LiveSteamOhio.html John Beck 330-336-6452 Lester Rail Trail Park, Medina, OH summer public operations

Printed on 3/12/2009 www.noars.org/orgs.htm Page 5 NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations NRHS Midwest Chapter Ohio Valley Railcars http://www.midwestchapter-nrhs.org/ organizes motorcar excursions in the Ohio Valley Region Meets first Saturday of each month (except July) at United Church of RR#2 Box 426 Ruffsdale, PA Christ,13740 Pearl Road, Strongsville, Oh 15679 P.O.Box 41332, Brecksville, Ohio Orrville Railroad Heritage Society 44141 http://www.orrvillerailroad.com/ Meets first tuesday of each month at 7:30PM. Ohio Central Railroad System 145 Depot St., P.O. Box 11, Orrville, http://www.ocsteam.com/ OH 44667. Ohio Central RR Passenger Sugar Creek Depot, Sugar (330) 683-2426 Department, Creek, OH Depot open Saturday P.O. Box 427, afternoons from April 15 to Sugarcreek, OH 44681 October 31 Penn - Ohio Model Railroaders Special excursions scheduled. Ted Fisher, PO Box 584, Sharon, PA Ohio Rail Development Commission 16146 http://www.dot.state.oh.us/divisions/rail/Pages/default.aspx Penn Central Railroad Historical Society The Commission's mission is to plan, promote, and implement the improved movement of goods and people faster and safer on a rail http://www.pcrrhs.org/ transportation network connecting Ohio to the nation and the world. PCRRHS The Ohio Department of P.O. Box 43 Transportation Flagtown, NJ 08821-0043 1980 West Broad Street, Columbus Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society Ohio, 43223 http://www.prrths.com/ Ohio Rail Tourism Association Membership: Andy Hart, http://www.ohiorailtourism.org/ PRRT&HS, PO Box 54, Bryn Mawr, brings together rail passenger operators and excursion sponsors, PA 19010-0054 railroad companies, historical societies to promote the Ohio rail Pennsylvania Trolley Museum tourism industry http://www.pa-trolley.org/ Ken Baldwin, Treasurer P.O. Box 208 1 Museum Road, Washington, PA Bath, OH 44210-0208 15301-6133, 1-877-728-76, [email protected] Ohio Railway Museum http://ohiorailwaymuseum.net/ Daily Memorial Day to Labor 990 Proprietors Road, P.O. Box 777, Day. Weekends April thru Worthington, OH 43085. (614) 885 December. -7345 Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Historical Society Sunday's 1:00pm - 5:00pm http://www.plerrhs.org (Memorial Day weekend thru September 30) 910 Beaver Grade Road, #1042 Moon Township, PA 15108 Ohio Valley Lines Putnam Association of Railfans http://www.ohiovalleylines.org/ Model Railroad, Museum, & Library Railway & Locomotive Historical Society 1225 Merchant Street, Ambridge, http://rlhs.org/ PA 15003 (724) 266-4787 Oldest organization in North America devoted to railroad history Holiday Season Open House in December each year

Printed on 3/12/2009 www.noars.org/orgs.htm Page 6 NOARS - Northern Ohio Association of Railway Societies - Northern Ohio Railroad Related Organizations Sebring Model Railroad Club Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum http://www.sebringmodelrailroadclub.org/ http://www.wpmrm.org/ 216 E Pennsylvania Ave. 40' X 100' scale representation of the tracks between Pittsburgh, Pa. Sebring, Ohio, 44672 and Cumberland, Md. set in the summer of 1952 Sundays, noon - 5:00pm, (724) 444-6944 5507 Lakeside Dr Tuesdays 6:00pm - 10:00pm Gibsonia, PA 15044 Shaker Heights Historical Society Annual Holiday Train Show http://www.shakerhistory.com/ (Nov-Jan) Shaker Heights is a model, streetcar suburb that was planned and developed by Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen in the Western Reserve Historical Society first decades of the 20th century. http://www.wrhs.org/ (216) 921-1201 16740 South Park Boulevard Library houses railroad related collections. Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Tues. - Fri. 2-5 p.m. and Sun. 2 Ohio 44106. (216) 721-5722. -5 p.m. Society for Industrial Archeology Monday through Saturday, 10 http://www.sia-web.org/ a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, preserving, interpreting and documenting our industrial past and noon to 5 p.m heritage. Western Reserve Model Railroad Museum Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University http://www.wrmrrm.org/default.htm 1400 Townsend Drive The museum has 16 different scales on display and operating Houghton, MI 49931-1295 layouts in: (906) 487-1889 'N', 'HO', 'On3', 'S', 'O', 'O tin plate', 'O 2 rail', 'Standard', 'Lego', Southern Appalachia Railway Museum Rick Montgomery (440) 251-0350 7471 Tyler Blvd. Unit L, Mentor, Ohio http://www.techscribes.com/sarm/index.htm sponsors railway excursions in Indiana/Ohio/Michigan area Open Tue and Thursday P.O. Box 5870, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee evening 5 to 9 pm, Saturday Tennessee, 37928, or call the 10am to 5pm, and Sundays museum at (865) 241-2140 for more Noon to 5pm information. Western Reserve Railroad Association STEAM Railroad Museum http://www.ncweb.com/org/nycdepot/ Restoring W&LE steam engine and other equipment. Preserving Painesville Depot 330-868-8814 177 Curry Street, Minerva, Mark Welch, (440) 357-7704, 475 Railroad Ave., OH 44657 [email protected] Painesville, OH 44077 Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway & Museum Wheeling and Lake Erie Historical Society http://www.tlew.org/ http://www.or4c.com/wlehs/ P.O. Box 168 , 49 North Sixth "Iron Cross" chapter of the NKPHTS. Street, Waterville, Ohio 43566-0168. (419) 878-2177 World's Greatest Hobby http://www.greatesthobby.com/ Weekends, May 10 - October 31, Model Railroad Industry Guide to the World of Model Trains. 2003, Also Sponsors World's Greatest Hobby on Tour. Wednesdays/Thursdays in June, E-Mail: [email protected] July and August Phone: 630-592-1894 Train Collectors Association US Mail: PO Box 11, Elmhurst, IL 60126 http://www.tcamembers.org/ John Carlisle, President 419-994-4759

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