Railfanning The Cleveland RTA On May 1, 2011

Created on May 1, 2011 using FlipShare. Well, on Sunday May 1st my family went to Cleveland, Ohio. They let me railfan a bit so, I chose to watch the RTA Red Line. The RTA also owns LRV's which I did not see on this trip. I will have a better video of the RTA this summer when I return to Cleveland. Take note at 1:27 in the video the engineer of one of the trains failed to wait for the crossing for the sidewalk to activate and gave no warning on the whistle it was approaching the crossing. That was a very dangerous thing as that crossing is a blind spot for going to the platform at Brookpark station. Video property of metraF40PH163.

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• Clevland RTA
• Cleveland Rail
• CRTA
• RTA Brookpark station
• downtown cleveland
• RTA waterfront line
• railfanning Cleveland RTA

[Megahammerheadshark]

Cool video! What is the name of this subway station? 

[metraF40PH163]

@Megahammerheadshark This is Brook Park, it's by the airport

[TheGiantAssasin]

you should go down to the cleveland steel mill. they let me actually drive one of the trains, and got to look around the repair shop, and refueling station.

[metraF40PH163]

@TheGiantAssasin Oh belive me I wanted too. That was on my list of places to go but, my family was with me & they are not into trains. I am probably going to go back in 2012 to railfan the RTA & The stell mill railroads, that's really nice they let you operate them

[2001rtm]

The "LRVs" (Light Rail Vehicles) that you mentioned in the description are part of the RTA's Green and Blue lines.

[metraF40PH163]

@2001rtm Yeah, I sat by the waterfront line for a half hour and nothing. Thanks

[metraF40PH163]

@unclecharlie3790 Thanks

[unclecharlie3790]

Cleveland, Ohio is cool. Good footage!