Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

Dave Foster and Mike Harkleroad with their trains on the closest track wait for Rick Nagy to load. A low angle shot of Dick Clark as he waits for Roy Harris to finish loading his train.

Frank Foti opens the throttle on East Wind as he blows the condensate out of the cylinders. John Deptowicz with his Snoopy train about to leave the loading area as soon as Roy gives the "All Aboard".

"Lynn" waiting impatiently as the safety lifts, venting the excess steam as Skip Frank watches the pressure gauge. A friend of Paul Emch, David Vinci entertained us with banjo music during the run and yes, many songs were about the railroad.

Dave starting another run with Skip and Linda Harris on the trains behind him as John with Snoopy is about to be loaded. Behind the station Ethan Deptowicz and Brendan Jucha play with the smaller trains.

Dick rumbles across Big Bend Bridge with his SW1500 pulling a train load of passengers. An overhead shot of Wally Pausch with his train as he crosses over Big Bend Bridge.

Frank with East Wind as she makes it up the grade at Mackey's Run. Rick with the GP38 crossing the Truss Bridge and heading for the grade crossing for the Park access road.

Tom Pappas as he crosses Patty's Rock Bridge as he coasts down the grade from Filmor. Karl Losely at the bottom of the grade near the same location opens the throttle for the grade up thru Gulch to High Creek.

Ted Nyland with his pair of interurbans crossing over Patty's Rock Bridge with his passengers. Following along, Linda coasts across the bridge with Rex's train and the cover he has for rain.

Dick as he crosses a little farther along the rails on Gulch Bridge has already started the grade up to Gulch. Frank tending the fire as East Wind takes the 3+ % grade up to High Creek.

An overhead picture as Skip crosses over the switch at High Creek. Judson Elliott at the same location as he crests the grade from Gulch with his happy passengers and Mike as conductor.

Wally as he heads for Horrendous with his train after passing thru High Creek. Dave and Rick are in the station again loading passengers for the next run as Roy checks over his loading of the cars.

From front to rear, Katelyn, Bill and Nik Morehouse with Addison, Jason, Elise and Kelly Patti riding the Snoopy train. Andrew, Brendan and Nathan Jucha with Austin Tapolyai definitely enjoying the ride.

Bill Deptowicz with his grandson Ethan share a moment while waiting for the trains ahead to load. Brendan's smile says it all when it comes to the trains and the rides.

Emmy Pausch talking with Amy Deptowicz with Lorri Morehouse, Jason, Addison and Kelly at the station. Austin in his glory, he would ride the trains all day long if we would let him.

See, Ethan called it a day as he can fall asleep with his Dad just not only on Gramps lap riding the trains. It's good to see Edith Hacker running the train behind the statoin with Logan Tapolyai going along for the ride.

Pam Znidar took the previous and following photos with this one Frank Foti holding the drivers and conductors meeting before the run. Emmy Pausch telling riders to remain seated until the train comes to a complete stop.

Frank coming into the station with his train load of passengers. During the run Marie Nyland was planting flowers and adding topsoil to some of the bare spots and spreading grass seed behind the station in the Orchard Yard.

Mike Harkleroad coming into the station at the end of his run with Lew Fowler as conductor. After the run, Roy, Mike, Ron Trenhaile, Kitty Shriver and Ted enjoy the time out from running.

Rex Shriver comes into the station with one of the last of his runs for the day. Ethan, Amy, Logan and Austin enjoy runnning and riding behind "Scrappy", George Metts scratch-built engine.

Jerry Bell with Mike, Lew and Don Speidel as the train comes to a stop at the station. Bill Bodemer was our passenger counter for todays run and that's Deb his wife sitting next to him.