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A Rare Sighting at Midwest

 The grounds around the Historic B&O Roundhouse are home to many weeds and wildfowers during the temperate months of the year. Some are pleasant looking and add color to the yard. Others are More...
Kit Whipple - Cleveland's Colorful Characters Joe gets to talk with author Kit Whipple about his new book about Cleveland and how to gained his research for this book.
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel Just May be 4070! 4070 Restoration Efforts
Now that the 4070 smoke box cover display has been completed, restoration efforts have returned to other areas of the locomotive that were begun but not completed. Volunteers have been busy during the month of June in... More

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America Update July 9, 2020 Work continues on the America.  A new hot water heater was purchased and installed that will service the kitchen and crew quarters. When researching replacements, it was determined that the old More...
4070 Committee July 1, 2020 The Trustees of MRPS have formed a committee to direct and oversee the restoration of the 4070 locomotive. The committee, meeting at regular intervals, has been formulating a comprehensive outline of More...
RPCA Conference Update June 30, 2020 Last month in Marker Lights, we outlined the MRPS proposal to the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance to host their annual conference in 2022. The Conference Coordinator of the RPCA, Charles Barthold, More...
The America Fund Lucky 777's Update June 19, 2020 Midwest is well on its' way toward reaching our goal to raise $7000 for the refurbishment of the America private railcar. The amount is being raised to match the initial donation of $7000 made More...
Midwest Has Re-opened For Small Group Tours June 5, 2020 Small Group Sign-up Will Be Available Through Etix for Saturdays in June and July As posted recently on social media, Midwest has opened it's gates for tours to small groups of ten people or less. More...
Glenwillow Depot June 3, 2020 The Glenwillow depot has been lifted off of its foundation and moved to a temporary location so the contractor can begin excavation of the new basement in Pettibone Park. Moving the depot allows the More...
A Look Back at Railroad History May 11, 2020 In September of 1953, the Pennsylvania Railroad brought a replica of the original "John Bull" Locomotive to Cleveland where it was on display at the old Pennsy passenger station downtown near the More...
April Fool's Revisited April 29, 2020 Periodically, readers of Marker Lights send feedback on certain articles that catch their attention, sometimes to add their input based on personal knowlege. Recently, "Nancy" asked us how we could More...
The Restoration of 4070 April 27, 2020 Recently there have been a lot of negative comments posted on social media regarding MRPS and the ongoing restoration of our light Mikado steam locomotive 4070. Most of these posts come from people More...
America Update April 27, 2020 Although the roundhouse has been closed to volunteers for more than a month MRPS was able to bring in some contract help to continue with the inspection of the air conditioning system. It had been More...