As many of you know, there is an attempt being made to save the Crestline roundhouse, and that it is in rather poor condition, to say the least! Time is its worst enemy, and it is continuing to deteriorate at an alarming rate. CRPS President, Ron Widman, visited the roundhouse last weekend and discovered the collapse of the outside wall to stall #30, the home stall for the S-1. This happened in just the past couple of weeks. He said in part:

"The brick that is covered on stall #30 from the beginning of the stall,
going west to the length of the stall.
The section of brick just peeled off and fell south onto the ground. The
concrete sub structure is still there, the brick just came off. The wood
frame windows fell off and now there is a rather large gaping hole where
the brick and windows were."

Sad news indeed. You can see the portion of the wall in a photo from last winter. Huge cracks can easily be seen in the photo, and it is not hard to imagine what it now looks like.

--
Bill Ayers
Remembering the PRR in Crestline, Ohio
http://crestline.pennsyrr.com/
Board of Directors, The Crestline Roundhouse Preservation Society


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Regarding the Pennsy Roundhouse in Crestline,

Good job Bill on your report at Crestline.
Sadly enough the olde structure has seen better days as can be seen in the good photos contained in Bill Ayers article about Crestline on the "Articles" page of this web site.
Bill tells a through historical story of one of the Pennsy's finest....The Crestline Roundhouse.
The good photo by Earl Myers, BOD member of the Crestline Roundhouse Preservation Society, in Bill's report....clearly shows the "cracked brick wall" of stall #30, which has now fallen to the ground.
The weather takes a terrible toll on the mortar and the structure itself.
We members of the society, CRPS, are trying to save the old structure, one step at a time.
I recall seeing the famous PRR structure at Crestline in my early years during 1950. Just living 12 miles west in Bucyrus and my family visiting my uncle (retired after 40+ years on the PRR)in Crestline, I got to see her in her glory a long number of years. Yes, I cherish those memories a whole lot and think of them often.
To see the shape that 'she' is in today with the walls falling down and all.............
as everyone knows.........it is the sad ending (at this point) of the PRR and the Crestline Roundhouse.
We need to keep our preservation interests alive if we are going to save this roundhouse and other structures.
Thanks for your time and the space.

Ron Widman, President, Crestline Roundhouse Preservation Society.

P.S.
Driving by the roundhouse as a kid and seeing the bright steam engine headlights shining thru the windows......was a real thrill! Wow....to be a kid again.



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