Toledo, Grand Rapids

The Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway is a non-profit 501, and heritage railroad operating on 10 miles of railway, ex- Norfolk and Western Railroad, née-Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad and crosses the Maumee River on a 901 ft bridge, which was constructed in 1916. This bridge is the largest owned by a tourist railroad east of the Mississippi River. The TLEW owns from MP 15 in Waterville to MP 25 in Grand Rapids, Ohio, acquired when NW was filing abandonment on the line south of MP 15. In addition to the purchase of the 10 miles of mainline track, the TLEW had leased from MP 13.2 to MP 15 through Waterville from the Norfolk Western, which later became Norfolk Southern in 1982. ()