On 11323 we caught the Newburgh and South Shore railroad with both their switchers (only 1021 was online, 1019 was along for the ride). Their railroad only crosses one road at grade, E 49th st on the south side of Cleveland. Here they work Charter Steel which appears to be their biggest customer. The other roads they cross are all overpasses and underpasses. They are now owned by OmniTrax but they were an independent railroad which opened for business. They were a of the American Steel and Wire Company (US Steel), The line ran from the company's Central Furnaces (the area roughly bounded today by the Cuyahoga River, Interstate 490, and Broadway Avenue) and ran briefly south before crossing the Cuyahoga River at the nowdemolished Jefferson Avenue Bridge. The track ran through the company's plant on the west side of the Cuyahoga, and recrossed the river near the nowdemolished Clark Avenue Bridge. The line ran south (passing over Campbell Road and under Harvard Avenue) before turning east. After an atgrade crossing of E. 49th Street and the bridging of E. 71st Street, the tracks turned north at E. 76th Street into the company Newburgh Works, terminating at Aetna Road. American Steel and Wire merged with a number of other steel companies to form U.S. Steel in 1901. U.S. Steel consolidated the NSR with another subsidiary railroad, the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, in 1951. Traffic on the road declined significantly after World War II, and largely ceased when U.S. Steel closed its Cuyahoga Works in 1984. The NSR sold 2.2 miles (3.5 km) of its main line to the Cuyahoga Valley Railway, and then closed on June 30, 1986. In July 1986, the track was sold to the Chicago West Pullman Transportation Co., now known as Omnitrax ( Wikipedia credit )

Also we attracted the attention of the local police force which had to question us briefly. The interaction was friendly as can be heard in the background.

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