Toledo, Lake Erie & Western Tourist Train - "The Bluebird"

[dodge6206]

The locomotive sounds beautiful, its too bad that Matt will be taking the railroad over, attempting to haul feight.

[mbta1000]

I wish the TLEW still ran like it did in this video, but that won't happen.

[metraF40PH163]

@mbta1000 What? We will run again. We will also be in Grand Rapids, Ohio again. It will take some time but, it will happen

[ohiofoamer7612]

@mbta100 We will run again, but it will take time,money, and alot of hard work from dedicated volunteers. Our railroad may not run this year but it will happen soon. As for grandrapids that will take more time.

[Megahammerheadshark]

@ohiofoamer7612 and @metraF40PH163 I don't know bro they stole lots of stuff that will cost millons of dollars and berfor that appened they were trying to fix the bridge but they could not afford to. Pluss you guys got no donation. :(

[metraF40PH163]

@Megahammerheadshark What? The damages reached around $75,000. The bridge does not need much done to it just new railroad ties need to be installed on it. We have also got donations recently

[Megahammerheadshark]

@metraF40PH163 You got donations?! ☺How mush do you have now?

[metraF40PH163]

@Megahammerheadshark Yes, we get donations of money sometimes

[metraF40PH163]

The reason we don't run in Grand Rapids anymore is due to a culvurt that collpased about a 1/2 a mile from the bridge. Our bridge is inspected yearly and all we need to do to operate across it s replace about 150 bridge ties. The rest of our eqyipment is cut offf from Grand Rapids due to the culvurt. The bridge's super structure is actully in great shape.

[locohog91]

ahh the good old days. my dad was still president then i think. and he K5LA was still ABF on the 112

[metraF40PH163]

Great video of the railroad I work for! Thanks for posting a video of our railroad in 1994

[ohiofoamer7612]

WOW! This was one of the last years running in Grandrapids. In 2000 we had a culvert washout near the bridge. The engin they operated is no longer in service. Someone thouht it would be a good Idea to run this engin in the winter time and not drain the water out of its block, and the cracked. So this engin is no longer in service. Nice video!

[bgsudude81]

Awesome video! This is the first footage I've ever seen of the Bluebird crossing the Maumee. This is exactally why this train needs to come back!

[mafarnz]

Nice video.