Hello, Penny
Thanks for sharing your images of local interest for this fellow Clevelander. Thanks to my dad's interest in railroads I spent my "wonder Years" on the wooden stairs that descended from the E. 152nd. St. bridge to the yard office at Collinwood Yard. He would take me along on our visits, usually weekly sometimes more often.
I grew up in the neighborhood of St. Clair and Eddy Road which was within the triangle of trackage formed by the Nickel Plate, Cleveland Short Line/C.U.T. and the NYC Lakefront main.
Nickel Plate Hudson 175 by Edmund, on Flickr
While this steam fan trip was just a bit before my time (I was age two then) I like to look at it knowing it was taken only a mile or so from my house.
Here I am just barely tall enough to reach that grab iron while checking out a Nickel Plate caboose. Note the matching red pants (it must have been my mother's idea ).
Thanks again,
regards, Ed
