Many trolley suburbs came about because developers built lines to attract residents. For Cleveland Heights the process was somewhat more complex. The first trolley to the region came for a slightly different reason. Dr. Nathan Hardy Ambler (1824 – 1888)…

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Last week, we discussed the brief history of the line for which this car, now in the Northern Ohio Railway Museum collection, was built. In addition to its background, this car itself has an interesting history. It was, as we…

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So what is the interest of an interurban in Illinois to Northern Ohio Railway Museum? Read on and we’ll tell you. The Fox River runs roughly north to south, about 40 miles west of Chicago. Along that stream are a…

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More Forgotten Electric Railway Pioneers: In reading about the very early days of railway electrification, we run into the name of a company that carried out a large percentage of those electrification projects, the Thompson-Houston Electric Co. Then, after a…

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