Thursday, August 17, 2006

Train ride through the park


A Cuyahoga Valley National Park ranger shows Anna and Erin a beaver pelt during their train ride on Sunday, August 13, on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. The girls with Baba and Grandad left the Northside Station in Akron at 1:15 p.m. for a trip to Peninsula and back which took an hour and 45 minutes. The railroad is one of the oldest, longest and most scenic tourist excursion railways in the country. It follows along the towpath trail of the Ohio Canal. The tracks reach 51 miles south form Independence passing through the 33,000 acre national park to Akron and Canton. The tracks were recorded in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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