North Coast Limited 2024 announces a tour of Midwest Railway Preservation Society’s facility located in the former B&O roundhouse. MRPS is a non-profit organization with a 70 year history of locomotive and railcar preservation. Open houses include a comprehensive tour of the Historic B&O Roundhouse that was opened in 1907 and the home to MRPS as well as being the focal point of our restoration efforts on numerous projects. A tour of the grounds and the railyard follows in which our knowledgeable tour guides describe in detail the original warehouse building and the numerous pieces of historic, vintage passenger and freight cars on site. The tour gives visitors a chance also to tour the interior of many of the cars giving them an idea of what train travel may have been like before air travel took its’ place as the primary method of long distance travel. MRPS is the current home of GTW 4070, our 1918 2-8-2 Mikado that originally ran on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad and then ran excursion service for them.

A representative of MRPS will give a presentation during NCL 2024 about MRPS and the projects they are working. Attend the presentation and follow it up with a tour of the MRPS facility. The facility is located in the Flats industrial area of Cleveland.

The tour of MRPS will be Saturday May 18th. This will be a ticketed event with tours starting at 10:00AM and 11:00AM. Cost is $10/person with all proceeds from the sale of tickets donated to Midwest Railway Preservation to assist their on-going restoration and preservation projects. Attendees will need to provide their own transportation to MRPS’ facility located at 2800 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, OH 44113.