Lake Shore Electric Railway Trestle

Standing over Porter Creek Drive, this huge concrete structure is a mere remnant of the impressive inter-urban train system that ran from Cleveland, Lorain, Sandusky, Norwalk, Fremont, Toledo, to Detroit. Started in 1901, the Lake Shore Electric Railway Company once carried over five million passengers a year along Lake Erie's shoreline. However, with the increasing popularity of buses and personal automobiles that arose in the 1920s, the railway began losing money. The last car ran from Cleveland to Lorain in 1938.