The returning Kentucky Derby train passes "Fast Eddie", the LaFarge Industries ex Lehigh Valley U23B, at the west end of Alliance,Ohio.
Always a great place to see Lehigh Valley power, the old footbridge in the shop town of Sayre was the vantage point for this shot.
In a busy downtown Toronto scene, a CN freight has stopped to check out it's 2nd unit. A switcher rests nearby while a PCC car and a bus pass overhead.
Three first generation geeps and 1 switcher pull a train south over the former C&EI.
On lease to the E&LS, this SOO covered wagon pokes it's nose out of the Channing engine house.
In a view from a nearby marina CSX train O841 crosses the Alafia River drawbridge on it's way to Big Bend. That old ship has seen better days!
CSX local O854, the first leg of the Tropicana "Juice train", passes Yeoman yard with the Tampa skyline in the background- and the Outback Steakhouse blimp overhead.
Three former Lehigh Valley Alco RS-11's are together again as local power. CR 7612 is a low nose version, 7643 and 7642 are high hoods. Conrail is over a year old, but the 7643 is still "pure" Le... (more)
EL had stored these F's prior to the Conrail merger in Scranton. CR would reactivate this unit as their 1888 between 1976 and 1978 when it was again retired and scrapped. I believe the 7104 was ac... (more)
The last of the AC&Y caboose fleet hangs on in local service around Akron,Ohio. It would last into 1981.
The AC&Y lines seemed to be assigned the oldest power the N&W had after the FM's were gone. These ex NKP GP7's were the standard power during the late 70s and early 80s. Two peas in a pod, the 242... (more)
A pair of Western Maryland Alco RS-3's sit out the Thanksgiving Day weekend back in 1976.
A short NS business train blasts through Hudson,Ohio on a deadhead move to Bellevue.
This former CPR unit brings up the rear on the last train of the day as it works it's way back north to Independence.
A view of the Bellevue hump shows both Route 4 and Ranger towers. Slugs 991 and 993 are with the 1582 this day.
