Here's a 1902 photograph of neighboring Ada, Ohio's, Pennsylvania Railroad depot. The line connected New York City and Chicago with very...

In 1937 you could take the Nickel Plate Railroad from Bluffton to Cleveland, round-trip for $2.50 per person. The special price was part...

Here’s a Lake Erie and Western Railroad passenger train traveling south of Bluffton toward Beaverdam and Lima. We believe that the...

Here are two extremely rare photographs of Northern Ohio Railway steam locomotives. Both photos were taken in the rural countryside...

Moving quickly through Bluffton, Ohio 100 years ago, this Lake Erie and Western Railroad freight train is steaming at a fast clip from...

Milestones in the life of Bluffton, Ohio, railroads 1833 Joseph DeFord builds cabin on banks of the Riley Michael Neuenschwander and...

It was a winter afternoon in 1965 when this Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad freight train derailed in Pandora, Ohio. Charles Hilty,...

Jackson Steinmetz is the author of this column. He is a 2019 graduate of Bluffton High School and a junior at Goshen College, Goshen,...

Paul Diller took this color slide photo of Nickel Plate Road 718 steam locomotive hauling fast freight through Bluffton in the mid-1950s....

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Here's the 10:05 p.m. Norfolk Southern freight from Lima heading to Bluffton at a very low speed.

Photo by Paul Diller,, circa 1956