Short trip to Ohio and some items of railroad interest

Greetings -

Betty and I travelled to Cleveland this past weekend to catch a White Sox game against the Indians at Progressive Field.  The less said about that game, the better!  Did manage to see some interesting railroad items at times.  Including some Norfolk Southern and IC/CN action from a seat at a Steak and Shake outside of Goshen, Indiana and also passing a beautiful two track signal bridge with a bevy of signals on a rail line just south of Toledo, Ohio.  Also managed a few photos of items along the way as per the attached, which perhaps you may find of some interest.

The first three photos show the old diminutive Nickel Plate Road depot in Waterville, Ohio which was once used by the Toledo, Lake Erie & Western tourist railroad for their trains to Grand Rapids, Ohio.  Recently that group has retrenched to Grand Rapids itself, and no longer runs to Waterville.  Supposedly the depot is still owned by NS and is considered "unused".  Note that there is no entry into the building from the platform and passengers apparently had to enter through a door in the rear.  Would be a shame if the neat structure and its classic train order board were not eventually preserved.

The fourth photo shows a Norfolk and Western class CG steel cupola caboose lettered for the Wabash Railroad at Whitehouse, Ohio.  The old Wabash right-of-way through Whitehouse is now a bike trail but the town folks have installed a building roughly resembling the original depot next to the trail, with this N&W caboose on display near that structure.  Although the Wabash did buy some old wood cupola cabooses back in the 1930's from the N&W, this caboose (NW #518388) was never a genuine Wabash caboose.  Still, nice to see that the railroads heritage is still remembered in Whitehouse.

Finally, I photographed this old New York Central caboose many years ago on private property just off of U.S. 20 east of Angola, Indiana.  I thought that being outside, it would deteriorate rather quickly, but that has obviously not been the case.  The paint may not be quite the right shade, but overall, the caboose still looks pretty good.  Kudos to the private owner of this wooden classic. 

Les