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Welcome to Northern Ohio Railway Museum
Thank you for your interest in Northern Ohio Railway Museum. The Museum is located at 5515 Buffham Road in Seville, Ohio (near Chippewa Lake). There, on two miles of the historic Cleveland Southwestern Railway, the museum is working to attain its goals to collect, preserve, restore, display and operate streetcars and other railway equipment for for the education of the public. The Museum is open to the public for guided walking tours on Saturdays 10 am to 4 pm, May 15th through October 29th. Admission is free, donations are requested.
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Click an image for a larger view.
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Three veterans of the Shaker Heights line are together again in this January 2010 photo at the Museum. Left to right are: Cleveland Railway Company 1225, Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 303 and Cleveland Railway Company Crane 0711.
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Members of the Berea Historical Society's youth group and their advisors visit the Museum and get some "up close and friendly" time with the Cleveland Railway Company Crane 0711.
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Members answer visitor's questions in August of 2009 at the Museum's travelling display during "Last Stop Willoughby," an event centered on Willoughby, Ohio's Railroad History.
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* * ANNOUNCEMENTS * *
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority authorizes the donation of Historical Equipment to N.O.R.M.
To learn more about these cars and how your donation can help us move them to the Museum
Click here.
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The Electric Pullman, A History of the Niles Car and Manufacturing Company has been added to our Museum Store's
Featured Items Page.
Visit our
New & Used Books Page
for great deals and new arrivals. All Used books are 50% off list price from now until the end of 2013. Many titles are in mint condition and are one of a kind.
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The
Plymouth Switcher
has arrived to take over switching duties.
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Visit our new
NORM Home Movies
channel at YouTube to see videos of what's been going on at the Museum.
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Now Available!
THE HISTORY OF THE RAVENNA ARSENAL
New Book unlocks the mysteries of this known, but yet unknown site.
Click
Here
to learn more.
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Available Now, American Advertising Federation Silver Award Winning Posters!
Visit our
Posters
page for more information.
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To accomplish its goals, N.O.R.M. needs your support. You can support the museum in many ways: by contributing toward its projects or by purchasing items from the Museum Store, or you can join as a member. As a member, you will be joining with one-hundred and eighty men and women who are voluntarily building, maintaining, operating and managing the railway
museum. Your membership will entitle you and your immediate family to admission to all activities at the museum, reduced fare on fantrips, a ten percent discount at the Museum Store and our bi-monthly newsletter, THE NORTHERN LIGHT. Regular membership will also entitle you to vote at meetings of the membership and in elections. Visit our
Membership
page for more information.
Please accept this invitation to stop by for a walking tour of our museum or to attend our monthly media nights. Media Nights are held at the Bethel Lutheran Church, 7171 Pearl Road in Middleburg Hts. The church is located on Pearl Road two blocks north of Bagley. Please drive to the building at the rear of the property and enter that building. Doors open at 7:45 PM. Our meetings are an equal measure of current museum news, entertainment and fellowship. Visit our
Museum Events
page for more information and visit our
Directions to the Museum
page for maps and directions.
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Museum member Dr. Allen Hall teaches third grade students at Seville Elementary School basic knowledge about trolleys and interurbans and the role that they played in the area's development. The Museum's educational PowerPoint presentation is now available free to area schools.
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Volunteers replace ties on the Museum's original switch in preparation for the arrival of several pieces of equipment aquired from the auction of the former Trolleyville collection.
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