Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

Jon Jaros brought his Northern that he has under construction with mostly just the detailing to be done. Skip Frank leaving the station with a load of passengers with the steam cylinder cocks open on "Lynn" and the smoke billowing out of the stack.

Jon backing his Northern onto the turntable with the boiler safeties lifted venting off the excess steam pressure. Lew Fowler as conductor on the trainload of kids leaving the station as Chet Roberts moves up to the loading zone with his steamer and Ken Vendlinger is behind him.

With a whistle blast and the safety lifted Chet starts to pull away from the station with his passengers. Roy Harris is loading the trains today as is giving the riding instructions to Kens' passengers before he departs the station.

Dick Clark just moved up with Rex Shrivers' train as Ted Nyland leaves the station with his electric powered interurbans. Dicks' train is loaded and he departs the station which the runs typically take about 9 to 10 minutes before they arrive back at the station and cover 5/8 of an actual mile(or 5 scale miles).

Jon with his Northern departing the station with passengers and Kevin Harris as conductor for this run. Ethan Deptowicz operating the Toby train and giving a ride to Audrey Roberts behind the station on the Orchard Loop.

Chet back in the station with his Mogul steamer at the loading area as he checks his engine over. John Deptowicz with his Snoopy train as he starts across the Big Bend Bridge with a trainload of riders.

Rex Shriver having just passed through Mackey's Run on his way to the Big Bend Bridge will soon be rumbling over the deck of the wooden bridge. Rick Nagy with the GP38 at Mackey's Run as he follows behind Rex's train.

Jon having just passed through the Truss Bridge is blowing the whistle for the grade crossing at the Park access road. Ken Brooks rumbles onto the Truss Bridge with a full trainload of passengers and Don Speidel is his conductor at the rear.

Bob Charles Bassett with his electric powered switcher engine just passed through Fern with his train. After coasting down the grade from Filmor, Skip opens the throttle for the 3 1/2+ percent grade up to High Creek with "Lynn" leaning into the task.

A few minutes later and Chet crosses Patty's Rock Bridge and the next location he passes through will be the double crossover at Gulch. Coasting down the grade from Filmor is John Koontz who is all smiles as he runs a pair of interurbans giving Ted a break.

John with a happy load of passengers as they start the grade down from Horrendous and passing through Filmor behind the Snoopy engine. Rick just passed through Horrendous and Ethan is waving to all the riders as they pass by.

Skip passing through Hemlock as he heads for Hilton and the grade down past Gulch. Bob showed up a few minutes later with his train and passengers on their way to Hilton and points West.

Karl Losely at the controls of Rex's train with a full consist as they pass through Hemlock. Mike Harkleroad with the Camelback at the ash pit dump area to clean out the ashes from the fire box grates.

Dick Clark at the controls of the GP38 with Paul Zorko as conductor as they leave the station. Bill Deptowicz at the controls of the Snoopy train as it arrives back at the station to unload its' passengers.

Chet on the backside of the station as he nears the end of this run and there is hardly any smoke rising out of his smokestack. The ever smiling and waving Ken with a load of passengers who seem to be enjoying the ride as they head back in to the station.

Ken moving out on the main line at the beginning of his run and seems to be the only train at the station for the moment. With the end of Jons' train in the foreground Bill pulls up along it on the far side, on track two.

Skip arriving at the station on this overcast day and will soon unload his passengers before taking on another load. Bill Bodemer, looking intent on a train loading, is our passenger counter today as we keep a rider count for the Park.

Jon arriving back at the station with the boiler safeties lifted and venting steam as he brings his train to a stop. Skip coasts to a stop coming into the station on track #2 as Ken behind him follows in on the same track.

Ken V. brings his train to a stop to unload as Ken B. slows the progress of arriving at the station passing on Track #1. Ted and Marie Nyland on the first interurban with Sam Walker and Carolyn Yeaglin, Sam's grandmother, on the second unit.

Mike and Skip doubleheading a train as they come into the station with Josh Frank riding behind them. John taking another run with Sam and Carolyn on board with Ethan looking over his shoulder at Gramps.