Agent Smith
Hack of all trades
- Local time
- 2:07 PM
- User ID
- 5180
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2018
- Messages
- 3,169
- Reaction score
- 18,946
- Location
- Northeast ohio

Afternoon all. I've been in history class for about a week. There's an old railroad bed in the woods behind my parents property and I've been curious about it for a long time so I decided to see if I could find anything out. What a wealth of history I discovered. Long story short this area was booming from the early 1800's till the mid 50's with logging, the rock quarries along with many other things. That particular track behind my parents went to one of the local rock quarries and was a branch line. Found tons of pictures of what the local towns used to look like and the businesses from back then. Neat pictures of the steam locomotives. Even some old resurrected black n white videos of them on the yootubes hauling coal and passenger cars. Pictures of buildings with some still standing today now well over 100 yrs old. Even the 2nd deadliest passenger train accident happened right here in Ashtabula county. Deadliest was in Tennessee in 1918. History is fascinating. Alright I'm done geeking out. Carry on