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NMRA Cleveland Convention 2014 Clinic Handout

Books

• Corns, John B. The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway TLC 1991
• Corns, John B. The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Volume 2 TLC 2002
• Rehor, John A. The Nickel Plate Story Kalmbach 1965
  multiple chapters on W&LE and predecessor railroads
• Worley, Howard V. Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway Mechling Books 2004

W&LE Specific Research Sources

• Nickel Plate Road Technical and Historical Society
• Cleveland State University Special Collections: W&LE Railroads
• HaithiTrust W&LE Annual Reports
• Private collections (John Benson, John Beach, John Corns & others) shared on railsandtrails.com:
  • Muskingum Valley Line Relocations 1936
  • W&LE Bridge Diagrams
  • W&LE Chagrin Falls Branch
  • W&LE Car Diagrams
  • W&LE Coal Mines 1906 Peobody Atlas
  • W&LE Huron Ore Docks 1937
  • W&LE Line Descriptions 1954
  • W&LE System Maps: 1910 1926 ~1940
  • W&LE Valuation/Property Maps: Cleveland Div Toledo Div Cleveland Belt
  • W&LE Track Charts Branches 1900
  • W&LE Timetables
  • Wheeling, WV area
    

General Research Sources

• Cleveland Public Library
• Massillon Museum
• Tuscarawas County Historical Society
• Western Reserve Historical Society Aerial Photography Collections
• County Departments: Engineer, Recorder, Map, Soil & Water
• Mike Good's Railroad Sources on the Internet