Lake Shore Electric Railway
Through arrangements with connecting interurban lines, it also offered service from Fremont to Fostoria and Lima, Ohio, and at Toledo to Detroit and Cincinnati.
In 1907, the company constructed a cutoff between Sandusky and Fremont, Ohio, which reduced the distance between Cleveland and Toledo by five miles and decreased travel time by 30 minutes.
The old and the new routes were operated with hourly passenger service where a two-car interurban from Cleveland separated at Sandusky and recoupled at Fremont to continue to Toledo.
[2] Starting around 1930, the LSE established a productive and growing freight business with neighboring interurban Cincinnati and Lake Erie RR.
[5] The Lake Shore Electric at its height operated multiple-unit trains of interurban cars to and from Cleveland and Toledo on an hourly schedule.
The Lake Shore Electric achieved nationwide note after motorman William Lang climbed out of his moving trolley car and snatched a 22-month-old child off the tracks on August 24, 1932, near Lorain, Ohio.
[7][8] Also, bridge piers can be found at the Cleveland Metroparks Huntington Reservation and in Cahoon Memorial Park, both in Bay Village, and at several other locations.
As of 2009, LSE coach #167 (that made the last run in 1938) sits at the secure parking lot of Journey Home Restoration Company, in Lorain, Ohio.
NORM also has an original Lorain Street Railway wood City Car #83, a line that was later operated by the Lake Shore Electric.
[10] In addition, wooden coach #150 (1906 Niles) and wood interurban box car #810 (1924 Kuhlman) are on trucks and undergoing restoration at Illinois Railway Museum as of February 15, 2010.
