Cuyahoga Valley Railroad

Nice layout!

Love the video.   One thing is missing though.  Shouldn't the Cuyahoga River be on fire?  

I grew up in Cleveland, Parma, Cleveland from 1946 until 1987.  Your depiction looks like what I used to see along the old Canal road and I-77 corridor, way back when.  Bob 
S.

Nice looking layout.

Really nice looking layout. Thanks for posting.

Very nice, but we need to see more.  Please.

Richie

Hahaha, you sure remember the area's history well! Historically, in my mind at least, I tried to model the more calm, serene, and beautiful part of the river in the National Park.

Thank you

Thanks Richard, I will. That was just a short one my son took while playing with his new phone.

Some of my fondest memories were of the early days of living in Parma, in the young fifties.  We lived off Broadview Road on a street called Hillsdale.  Our street was very short in those days and ended with a forested area.  I used to explore those woods in all seasons.    To the north, my boundaries were Rockside road.  Actually there was a creek that ran parallel with Rockside road and I would walk the creek to my easterly boundary of old Route 21.  That was a long way from Broadview Road.  In those days, rock side was a dirt road that far out, and rt. 21 was only a two lane blacktop road.  My southern boundary was Seven Hills.  I was Daniel Boone back then at the ripe old age of 6 or 7.  But, I never got lost and my parents never worried about me.  Good times to be sure.

Bob S.

Great looking layout!  Very nice use of your backdrop.

Art

Nice looking layout, reminds me of the Cuyahoga valley railway when I was a kid.  Our property butted up to the valley so I used to have to cross the canal then the river to get to the tracks.  I used to climb the poles along the track to remove the old wire insulators for my mom,  aw the good olde days.

Paul

Yes, times sure have changed. I was a Cleveland kid, (old Brooklyn), went to Corpus Christi Elementary and the Rhodes High School. Moved to Parma after I was married, my kids went to Valley Forge High School, which I don't think even existed in the late 50's, early 60's. Nowadays you would have went to Normandy High School based on where you lived. Nothing stays the same does it? Perhaps that's why we model!

Thank you Art. The clouds are actually wallpaper on the walls.

Rhodes was our arch enemy.  I went to Marshall, which was originally a duplicate of Rhodes, or was it the other-way-round?  

Thanks Paul, makes me glad to hear that cause that was exactly the area I was trying to model.

I'm not sure how long it's been since you've visited Rockside Road...but you might not recognize it...especially during rush hour.  It's six lanes wide at places....and is, for lack of a better word, booming.

Haha, how ironic, I believe both buildings were identical to one another which perpetuated the rivalry. Boy those were the days weren't they, Rhodes, Marshall, South, West Tech, Lincoln, West. Marshall and Rhodes are the only two left.

If you have not yet done so, riding behind or chasing NKP 765 through the National Park in the fall is a really neat/cool experience.  The beauty of the park lends itself to some really great picture taking opportunities....in case seeing the 765 (in all of her glory) isn't enough motivation for you. 

We have been back, and Rockside is in-fact almost a super-highway.  I think the creek is still there but off behind those mansions that reside atop the hill.  

If you go South on 21 (into Brecksville) there is at least one nice restaurant that backs up to what I think is the same creek you're referencing.  You can dine al fresco....but a good 20 feet or so above the creek bed and its wooded shorelin.  I make it there once a year after a golf outing.  Cool place.  If only I could remember its name this a.m.

The layout looks really great. Very anxious to see more pics and videos.

I think Marshall was torn down last year, or the year before.  A new school constructed on the site.  West Tech was where I went to summer school several times.  You're absolutely right, those indeed, were the days, for us.  But, I think, everyone has those days in their lives.  

Yes,and it's probably why we all play with trains!