YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – A new rail yard is coming to Youngstown. On Thursday morning, the Ohio Rail Development Commission voted to approve a project between Poland Avenue and the Mahoning River.

In the January 2025 issue of Model Railroader magazine, Contributing Editor Lou Sassi paid a visit to the Youngstown Model Railroad Association, located in its namesake community in Ohio.

As boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train.