June 10, 200916 yr Good tour. I used to go to Lima fairly often, but haven't been there in 30 years or so. Downtown definitely looks better than it did then. The city was a dangerous place after dark, then.
June 10, 200916 yr Well done. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 10, 200916 yr very sharp -- i love the saturation in those. but....... "show me the kewpee!" :wink:
June 10, 200916 yr I've only been there a couple of times, but I really like Lima's downtown for some reason. Maybe the trees, narrow-ish streets, and the fact that it has some old school downtown residential mixed in make it seem real cool to me.
June 11, 200916 yr I've had two really bad experiences in Lima, not that their Lima's fault 1. Car broke down there at 2:00 a.m on the way back to Michigan 2. The next time I was nearby I decided to get off the freeway and shoot some photos. What I didn't realize was how ridiculously cold it was outside. I decided to put up with and shoot the photos.....but I got sick a few days later AND there was a dot on the sensor which will need to be edited out before those photos leave my hard drive. Still, the downtown has a lot of beautiful buildings. I just think there's a lot of potential it has yet to tap.
June 11, 200916 yr In its hey-day, Lima's industrial mainstay, the one that spread the name of the city far and wide, was Lima Locomotive. According to Wikipedia: Lima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shops location in Lima, Ohio. The shops were located between the Baltimore & Ohio's Cincinnati-Toledo main line and the Nickel Plate Road main line and shops. The company is best known for producing the Shay geared logging steam locomotive, and for being the home of William E. Woodard's "Super Power" advanced steam locomotive concept - exemplified by the prototype 2-8-4 Berkshire, Lima demonstrator A-1. The last Lima Shay geared locomotive built (1944), at 162 tons the biggest one still existing, in tourist-train service at Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia: 1944-built Lima Berkshire 2-8-4 locomotive restored and operated by Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society:
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