Posted August 14, 200717 yr Does anyone have info on the subway tour of Detroit/ W. 25th? I think there is one on Sept. 1 but i'm not sure when or where to go. https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
August 14, 200717 yr Saturday, September 1, 2007 Times: Open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Location: Northeast Corner of W. 25th Street & Detroit Avenue, at the west end of the bridge. Accessible via RTA (20, 22, 326 and others). Free parking is available at the County Engineer’s Bridge Garage, which is located at the tour’s entrance. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 30, 200717 yr By the way, at the subway tour, there's going to be a streetcar on display (a real one from Pittsburgh, not a mock-up or a Lolly The Bus). The streetcar comes courtesy of Trolleyville USA and a couple other sponsors. It's a PCC streetcar, identical to the ones that use to ply Cleveland's streets and the Shaker Rapid until 1980-81. The Pittsburgh PCCs were still running into the 1990s. The PCCs were great streetcars -- the first prototype was unveiled in Cleveland at a transit convention some 70 years ago. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 30, 200717 yr i will not be there this time. but I do recommend it every now and then. And just an FYI for those who haven't been a few years, you can definitely walk the entire stretch of the bridge now. (well from one bank to the other)
August 30, 200717 yr I'll be there as always - bringing plenty of folks & taking them over to the Rotunda as well with lunch on East Fourth in between. Sweet.
August 31, 200717 yr Also feel free to stroll down the hill to the dragon boat races http://clevelanddragonboatfestival.com/index.php and to check out Spaces Gallery
September 1, 200717 yr Spaces is amazing. I love that place. Stop there every time I'm in Cleveland. The dragon boat races sound fun!
September 1, 200717 yr I forgot all about the dragon boat races!! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 8, 200915 yr Did anybody go? I was busy pulling palster and lathe out of my kitchen and forgot about it.,,,
July 2, 201014 yr http://www.cuyctyengineers.org/subway_tour.htm This Saturday July 3rd 9AM-3PM. Get those cameras ready....
July 4, 201014 yr I posted some pictures I took today here: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,23851.0.html
May 17, 20187 yr Cuyahoga County Verified account @CuyahogaCounty 38m38 minutes ago More SAVE THE DATE: August 18! Veterans Memorial Bridge & Subway 100th Anniversary Tour ?? Last year we had over 13,000 visitors! Make sure to join us for your self-guided tour of this awesome piece of Cleveland history! #ThisIsCLE "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 18, 20186 yr Cuyahoga County Verified account @CuyahogaCounty 38m38 minutes ago More SAVE THE DATE: August 18! Veterans Memorial Bridge & Subway 100th Anniversary Tour ?? Last year we had over 13,000 visitors! Make sure to join us for your self-guided tour of this awesome piece of Cleveland history! #ThisIsCLE Today's the day!
August 19, 20186 yr A few pics from today. I didn't take many pictures in the subway because I've got quite a few already. In fact, in the fall of 1994, while working at Sun Newspapers and before the bridge was rebuilt for $50 million, I got a tour of this bridge. This was before before they started offering public tours and before many improvements were made including replacing the 3' wide rickety catwalks over the river with concrete roadways in the subway deck and no lights at all in the subway tunnels. It was an awesome tour and I walked out into some very dangerous parts of it thinking I would do it because I'll probably never be able to get back down here again. As it turns out they hold these tours just about every year. It was the first time I took my wife and son. They weren't too keen on taking this tour at the start but seemed to like it more as it went on. We walked all the way across the bridge and then back down again underneath via the Center Street swing bridge. The 140-year-old stone Superior Viaduct it replaced, although it was only 40 years old when replaced. But it was overrun with traffic and the center swing span was the scene of some horrific incidents, including a streetcar that went into the river. And, really, both bridges replaced the Center Street swing bridge (below), one of many movable bridges that were subject to delays from river traffic. The Waterfront Line seemed to be used more lately. A couple dozen passengers were on these two trains I saw and others have posted on UO that their commute trips to East 9th are busier..... Settlers Landing Park. Lots of historical markers around here, including for the original settlers Lorenzo Carter who built a cabin here in 1796, the northern end point of the Ohio & Erie Canal starting in 1827 (ending in 1872 when the river became navigable farther upstream), and as the landing spot for many Irish escaping the potato famine in the 1840s and 50s.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 19, 20186 yr I thought the streetcar-into-the-river incident was on the central viaduct? Not the old Detroit bridge? Great pics!
August 19, 20186 yr I thought the streetcar-into-the-river incident was on the central viaduct? Not the old Detroit bridge? Great pics! Both "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 21, 20186 yr I went. Had fun, walked around East bank when we got to the other end. Did not seem to be as many people this year, but was a ton going on last weekend.
August 21, 20186 yr Really? I thought the crowds were good. We had to park down by the Center Street bridge and walk up to the west end of the bridge. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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