[Mustapha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima,_Ohio

http://www.cityhall.lima.oh.us/

Verrr-y quiet on this July 3 Sunday afternoon. Many 'heritage' older office buildings, old and vacant, but not abandoned. A couple of older hotels - given over to social housing. Tidy sidewalks and friendly people - the few that were around. The suburbs were humming with cars and shoppers but that's typical for this kind of American city profile. The business people - the management class - are typical of Americans - they fix you with a steady gaze and do as they say and quickly once the terms are agreed upon. The worker class - if we may call it that - are eager to please, courteous and know their business.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Lima,Allen County,Ohio...An interesting small northwestern Ohio city...

Mustapha: This is an interesting group of pictures from the City of Lima,Ohio...

This is a City that I have passed thru many times between 1973 and 1988 riding Amtrak's "Broadway Limited" between NYC and Chicago...

This train made Ohio stops W of Pittsburgh at Canton,Crestline(Mansfield area) and
Lima on its way W to Fort Wayne,Indiana and then continued NW across Northern Indiana basically following US Route 30-the "Lincoln Highway" to the Chicago area...

The former E/W Pennsylvania Railroad line that served Lima ran thru Bucyrus, Upper Sandusky and Ada to the E and then Elida,Delphos,Van Wert and Convoy,Ohio and Monroeville,IN to the W on its way to Fort Wayne...

This train was re-routed in late 1990 and service ended to those three Ohio stops and Fort Wayne and the re-route served cities like Akron, Fostoria and Defiance,Ohio and Garrett and Napanee,IN using CSX's former B&O Line across both states...
Lima lost its Amtrak passenger rail service at that point...

I always found that small city to be interesting and I always got a kick about how Lima got its name-the founders thought that it was the global opposite of Lima,Peru
but were poor geographical students...

Lima Square and the Savings Building are classic older architecture buildings...

Picture #7 is the Allen County Court House...
The Kewpie Hamburger stand in pic #19 is a preserved old classic...

Another thing this shows to me is how different cities in Ohio can be...cities in Western Ohio are very different then cities in the eastern half of the State which are hillier and appear more eastern...especially those from Cleveland/Akron on E and Youngstown on S and E into Appalachian SE Ohio...Lima definitely has a Midwestern look and to it...

Thoughts and memories from Long Island Mike

 

[Mustapha]

Unrelated to Lima, but on your point about train travel: I have many many happy memories of traveling from Toronto to NYC and back on the Maple Leaf Express.

 

[pman]

It looks like somebody detonated a neutron bomb.