As a former gritty and coal-fueled industrial powerhouse, Cleveland, Ohio was once crisscrossed by the steel rails that brought coke, coal, iron ore, and untold other materials to the steel mills and factories. Rail was king at the time. Across the city were gleaming steel twin rails twisting and turning through Cleveland’s Flats, the industrial valley along the Cuyahoga River. Although most of the mills are gone and most of the tracks have been dismantled or scrapped, there are still a few grand examples of Northern Ohio’s rail and steel…
