The Wheeling & Lake Erie was once a gracious host of various excursion trains sponsored by the Orrville Railroad Heritage Society, the Midwest Railway Preservation Society, and the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum.
Many of those excursions passed through or near Akron.
W&LE GP 35 No. 104 is sh own traveling eastbound with an ORHS excursion at Justus on Oct. 13, 2012.