(erielack) OH - Engine almost ready for local railroad display

["Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>]

Engine almost ready for local railroad display
July 13, 2011
By Lisa Byers Meadville Tribune

MEADVILLE — Dennis Mead has tinkered with his fair share of model train sets ... those little ones that have become such a huge part of America’s toy heritage. He’s torn some apart and put others back together. And then at the end of the day, he unhooks them, packs them up in their boxes and transports them to wherever it is they belong next.

It’s a rather simple process. If only it were that easy to tear down the real thing — the Erie Railroad ALCO S2 yard engine No. 518 — and bring it to a set of local tracks currently holding a historic caboose.


“Far from it,” Mead said. “It would be nice if we could just pack it in a box and bring it to Meadville. That is definitely not the case.”

The French Creek Valley Railroad Historical Society acquired the Erie Railroad’s yard engine No. 518 nearly three years ago and has been working feverishly to bring it to Meadville where it will accompany the Erie-Lackawanna Caboose C356 currently on display at Pomona Park, on the north end of Smock Bridge, just off the French Creek Parkway.

Full article:
http://meadvilletribune.com/local/x1422810697/Engine-almost-ready-for-local-railroad-display

Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey

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