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Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

For the "Railroads in the Park" theme today we set out our passenger car up on one of the steaming bays and removed the railing in the fence so the public could take pictures alongside of it with their family. The trains were moved into position at the loading area prior to the start of the public run.

Rick Nagy with the club's GP38 as he passes through Horrendous on his way down grade towards Filmore with a full complement of passengers and Jennifer Legan as his conductor. Just departing the station, Frank Foti with East Wind as he cracked the throttle and gains speed with Judy Oscker at the rear of the train as his conductor.

Chet Roberts with his steamer and Scott Hewis with his diesel stop at the loading area as Don Spiedel waits for Robbi Haines and Ken Brooks to finish loading his train. Don departing the station with Paul Emch's train on one of his beginning runs of the day.

Lew Fowler and Ken in conversation as Dick Clark pulls up with his SW1500 engine and unloads his passengers at the end of their ride. A young man sits in the engineers seat for a photo op of Paul Emch's Nickel Plate Railroad Hudson engine after having just ridden behind.

Don Speidel as he takes the grade at Mackey's Run with his train on his way to the Big Bend Bridge with Dick Schmidt as his conductor. Jerry Bell as engineer of the Park engine has just passed through the Truss Bridge and will be passing over the grade crossing for the Park Access Road.

Frank having just passed through Zip Junction will next encounter Horrendous on his way towards points West as he is near the mid-way point of his run. Paul Zorko with his SW6 will soon be passing Drudgery as he heads towards Hemlock near the beginning of his run.

Rick passes by Drudgery with a happy group of riders that are only a couple minutes into the run on this beautiful sunny day. Skip Frank as he heads for Hemlock is adjacent to the yard were Bill Deptowicz's scratch built stock-car is sitting out.

Bill modeled the stock-car after John Allen's G & D (Gory and Defeated) Bulline 125 sway back car of HO gauge fame from the 1950's that John made. Paul Emch with his Hudson as he passes over the Park Access Road crossing on the mainline just before Drudgery with Frank Smoley as his conductor.

Marty Pinkston with his scratch built cab and engineer's car approaches the photographer with his passengers near the start of his run. The activity at the loading zone as passengers are loaded and engineers wait with their empty trains.

Skip just starting to move his train at the beginning of his next run with his steam engine "Lynn" hardly producing any smoke at the moment. Chet approaching the unloading area as he comes into the station and is on the switch to track No. 2.

Ken Vendlinger arriving at the station with his Reading electric powered switcher engine is all smiles as he nears the end of his run. Next to come into the station is Don with his trainload of passengers who seem to have enjoyed the ride.

Scott approaches the station with his smooth running engine which is also electric powered and painted in the Southern Pacific paint scheme. Marty departs the station with his passengers in the Pennsylvania gondola.

Roberta Uhrich helps the young man to his seat on the train as Robbi loads the rear cars with passengers. Ken waits patiently for his train to be loaded as Rex Shriver with his Roll Models switcher waits for the "All Aboard!" so he can move his train.

Dick Clark on the mainline near the start of his run has just passed by the switch to Short as he heads for Drudgery. Don having just passed through the Covered Bridge is at Zip Junction on his way to Horrendous and points West.

A low angle shot of Jerry Bell coming down the grade at Filmor with his load of passengers on his way to Patty's Rock Bridge. Scott as he passes by Filmor and the plate girder bridge that is on the Branch Line with the double crossing over the mainline.

Marty gives a wave as he passes along on the mainline past Filmor with his passengers. After passing through High Creek with the wheels clickety-clacking over the crossing for the Branch Line, Paul heads for Horrendous with his passengers.

A few minutes later Rex passes by the same spot with his passengers as he heads for Horrendous and points West. Richard Sales passes through High Creek with his load of passengers as he follows a couple minutes behind Rex.

As the photographer stands on the Branch Line he watches Dick, who has just climbed the 3 1/2+ percent grade from Gulch to High Creek, pass by on his way to Horrendous. I caught Skip, with his train after passing through Hemlock, crossing over the Big Wash Bridge on the mainline as he makes his way toward Hilton.

On the mainline at the Branch Line crossing at Hilton, Don starts the long grade down towards Fern with Frank Smoley as his conductor. Jerry having left the station a few minutes ago is it Drudgery with his trainload of passengers and Diane Hopp is his conductor.

Back at the station I caught this dapper gentleman in the conductors uniform, namely Ray Delmore, who helped load our trains with passengers today. Adam Pakeltis takes time out to pose with Ray, our conductor in uniform, after the Public Run was over today.