WATERVILLE, Ohio — A beloved piece of northwest Ohio’s history may soon be rolling again as the Bluebird passenger train, once a popular attraction during the 1970s, could be making a comeback.
Though its carriages are home to nothing more than dust and spiders, a group of dedicated volunteers from the Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway and Museum is working to breathe new life into the rails stretching from Grand Rapids to Waterville.
“It’s definitely an opportunity to capture a part of the past that has long since dissipated with the use of the automobile and the fact that we’re connected to the internet,” Durrell Johnson with TLE&W said. “To think about how our parents and grandparents and great grandparents and the people that came before us actually were able to travel and move goods and services.”…