Wheeling & Lake Erie

Wheeling & Lake Erie has been a railroad that has fascinated Trains readers for years. Learn more about this railroad, its motive power, and operations in this TRAINS Express pdf package that covers the history as well as the rebirth and growth of today’s Wheeling under CEO Larry Parsons. Here’s the line-up of nine stories from the Trains magazine archive:

- "Instant news coverage on the W&LE" By John B. Corns and Frederick M. Westcott, Pages 52-53, July 1977
- "Straight to Oregon" By John B. Corns, Pages 50-52, August 1978
- "Wheeling’s wandering water buffalos" By John B. Corns, Pages 44-48, March 1979
- "Built at Brewster" By John B. Corns, Pages 52-58, November 1984
- "Rebirth of the Wheeling" By Tracy Kirk Davis, Pages 18B, 18D, 20, June 1990
- "A half-century gone" By John B. Corns, Pages 72-75, September 1993
- "For the new Wheeling, steady as she goes" By David Patch, Pages 28-29, August 2000
- "Starting small, thinking big" By Craig Sanders, Pages 32-41, July 2001
- "Selected Railroad Reading: The Wheeling’s last was my first" By John B. Corns, Pages 62-63, August 2001