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| ...more miscellaneous Ohio train photos |
| Years ago, the Cuyahoga Valley Line tourist and scenic operation was powered by steam. Here is CVL 4070, a former Grand Trunk Western USRA light Mikado, pictured after we'd gotten off the train. What a ride; pity that the 4070 is no longer operational. |
| Occasionally the Mad River & NKP Railway Museum in Bellevue Ohio allows other owners to store locomotives and equipment on trackage adjacent to the museum itself. This was the case a number of years ago as this battered looking E-8 or E-9 appeared. It sat in a spot previously occupied by two even worse looking Milwaukee-painted F units. My brother took this shot. (I know this because that's me about to walk past the other side of the unit.) |
| New York Central System B-11k class 0-6-0 steam switching locomotive. Pictured many years ago as preserved and displayed in Carillon Park, Dayton Ohio. |
| By the middle of the 1990's, I had really begun to get in touch with the fact that so much railroad right of way in the United States had been abandoned, or fallen into desolate disrepair. I noticed, when riding the RTA Rapid, the great number of industrial spurs that now went nowhere. The great loss in transport capacity was striking to me, and I began to take pictures of abandoned right of way and track. Here is an abandoned spur in Lorain, Ohio, which I was told used to lead from the N&W to a U.S. Gypsum plant. The condition of the ties can be inferred from the photo; nothing could have run on this. In following years, the road crossing from where I shot this (behind me in the picture about fifty feet) has been paved over, and some of the rail torn up. |
| Finally, another shot from better times! A like-new Conrail B23-7, road number 1992, is the trailing unit on a train moving steel coils out of Rockport Yard. Just discernible in the photo is the exhaust starting to puff out as the units wound up. |
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