New River Train, "End Of An Era", Erie Railroad, Ohio City, Ohio

June 2010 RR final track removal from Glenmore-Ohio City, eastward towards Elgin Ohio. Ohio City is a good example of how the RR's helped these towns survive years ago, with the double-track Erie Lackawanna running East/West, the Cincinnati Northern running North/South and the former Cloverleaf/Nickel Plate running East-North East/ West all meeting in Ohio City to interchange rail traffic. As a nation, we seem to have lost a lot in the last 30 years, not only with the heavy manufacturing that was so prevalant in the early-mid 1900's, and still through the 1970's, with most now heading South of the boarder...... Whirlpool ring a bell recently? We lost a lot of various railroads with Indiana and Ohio leading the most miles per State lost, looking back, you'd think surely something could have been done in the late 60's early 70's to head off some of these lost miles of track, for both major carriers and short-lines as well. The condition that the Erie Lackawanna was in, when L.B. Foster bought it, seemed like such a waste to see it scrapped. Erie was way ahead in there innovations, way back...... We lost a lot of manufacturing/assembly production, much of our railroad/infrastructure since then, along with our downtown area's with local families hardware stores, clothing or dime-stores, that are for the most part, also now a thing of the past. You have to ask yourself, what's gonna be left of these old downtown area's in another 50 or 75 years, will any of these old brick classic downtown buildings be left at all? How about all the small towns or villages the railroads served, like in this area; Decatur, Ohio City, Wren, Glenmore, Willshire, Preble, Peterson, Tocsin, Uniondale, Pleasant Mills, railroad service seemed to keep these alive, each with both small and large business's locating close to, or near the tracks, many with railroad service at there doorstep..... few anymore. NOTE: PICTURE AT 1:07 IS NOT OHIO CITY, IT WAS TAKEN IN UNIONDALE INDIANA, ERIE Music by, Doc Watson, New River Train

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[tpwkbs]

cool vid

[franky98765]

@tpwkbs Thank you....

[TREX294]

so much history

[Seaboard1321]

very sad