Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

Bill Deptowicz brought 2 of his 3 scratch built cars that he has built with the interurban his latest project that he is working on. Brian Pettit's 3 truck Shay that he's scratch building was on display and looking good.

Ken Brooks, the president of our club, brought his electric engine and put it on display and it looks pretty close to being finished with its new paint job and lettering. And this is Frank Foti's live steam Pacific engine, "East Wind" that has many hours logged on it since Frank purchased it.

Roy Harris brought his 0-6-0 chassis that is finished enough to run on air and had on display for the show. Kevin Harris brought the steel body caboose lettered for the B & A Railroad.

Kevin Harris's friend brought the Pennsylvania boxcar for display that was out in the front lobby. Wally Pausch's son took on the task of painting Don Speidel's Morris switcher that was painted for Con Rail first , then all black and now in the New York Central paint scheme.

Roy Harris talks with one of the attendees about where our track is at Penitentiary Glen, in Kirtland. There was a lot of activity out by the entrance area to the show through out the morning hours as the members fielded the questions asked of them.

The members were kept pretty busy and here we see John Deptowicz in the green T-shirt answering questions about the train runs we have up at the park that are free to the public. Along with Roy behind the tables we have Edith hacker, Kitty Shriver and Robbi Haines in this picture with Rex Shriver, his back to us, talking with an attendee.

A view down along our tables with Roy Harris and Linda Harris behind the tables. John Deptowicz was surprised to see his son Ethan's teacher, Mrs. Kim Knoch and her son Brayden, who by the looks of his T-shirt is very much into the trains also.

John had his Snoopy train engine there along with his Snoopy caboose which has the Charlie Brown characters like this one of Lucy looking out the windows. A side view of his caboose with Snoopy on the back platform and Woodstock in the nest on the roof.

The younger set of attendees took delight in being able to touch the static table top steam engines. A view sighting along the tables with the miniature stem models on them, some running on air.

Roy Harris doing maintenance by oiling some of the tabletop steam engines and shop equipment that was running for display. Close-up view of the machine shop that had a lathe, saw and a drill press being powered by a steam engine that was running on air.

The mill engine, running on air, powered the shop tools as you can see the moving parts in this picture are blurred on purpose to convey motion. We had steam engines from small replicas of shop equipment, project type engines and some also called "warbler" type or freelanced.

At the far end of the table we had some Marine type engines on display along with telegraph keys with one that Roy connected to a battery pack, so the kids could "operate" for a hands-on experience. In the center of the picture we had a steam powered tractor and a locomotive in miniature that could actually be steamed up to run.

Here we have LSLS members, Judy Oscker and Rex Shriver behind the Lake Shore Live Steamers tables to answer questions from the public in regard to our hobby. Out in the front lobby an attendee talks with Ken Brooks, the president of our club, as they discuss the trains.

Dick Clark was taking it easy in a comfortable chair as he talked with Frank Foti about something that was over there! At least they both agreed on that. Bill Besselmen, one of our long-standing members and past trustee with the Cass Scenic Railroad, was in attendance of the show.

Roy Harris explains to a show attendee the makings of one of his tabletop steam engines that he had at the show operating on air. Caught the villain in the act, Frank Foti trying to lift my Nickel Plate caboose and what's worse the members of LSLS watch him do it.

Frank Smoley, Ken Brooks, Rick Nagy and Lois Smoley got a good laugh out of it and all the while I thought Ken was protecting the equipment out there. This was a surprise at the show, to look at this engine you would never know that it was Don Speidel's old blue Conrail Morris engine that had been painted all-black and now a new life. Looking good Don!

Jon Jaros, Kevin Harris and Brian Pettit were out in the front train display area by the front door to answer questions from many of the show attendees. Bill Deptowicz poses with his scratch-built Nickel Plate Road caboose and the scratch-built Lake Shore Electric Railway interurban that he is currently working on.

Ken stands by his electric engine and is in discussion with one of the showgoers about the hobby. Bill meeting up with an old friend, Al Fenton, as they were both in the Cleveland Model Boat Club together at one time.