Re: (rshsdepot) Bucyrus, Ohio

["Kenton Dickerson" <kentondickerson_@_hotmail.com>]

An interesting note is that the station in Bucyrus and the Alabama Great 
Southern station in Ft. Payne, AL are almost exact copies of each other.  
They were probably designed by the same architect.


- ----Original Message Follows----
From: Jim Dent <jdent_@_erols.com>
Reply-To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
To: RSHS List <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Subject: (rshsdepot) Bucyrus, Ohio
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:54:47 -0400


-From the EL List...

 >
 >     Good news!!! To those of us in Ohio anyway! I went to Bucyrus last
 > weekend, after a brief stop in Marion to take a gander at Ac tower, but
 > what I found out in Bucyrus was that the T&OC station may soon be under
 > restoration! A committee has been formed and some other political papers
 > are being shuffled around so stand buy and see what happens! Those who
 > want to be kept up to date let me know and I'll pass on what I know when
 > I know it, Im going back up there this weekend, I was born/raised in
 > Bucyrus and still have family there, and I hope to take a few pics
 > before much happens, although the building looks rather grim right now.
 > One last note, Bucyrus was a RR dyeing town not too long ago, after the
 > forming of CR the east-west tracks were hardly used, im guessing 4
 > trains a day, if that. But now its a busy place again, NS added a
 > interchange track to go from Columbus north,,RR west?? to east onward to
 > Crestline, its busy again now, hopefully I'll get to check it out better
 > this summer, but it never again will be like it was when i was in school
 > in Nevada, just west of Bucyrus, seeing all the different adsorbents
 > into Conrail, those were the days, wish I knew than what I think I know
 > now. Have a great day, Todd

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