B&O 800 close up beautiful nose with Akron Station and crew in the background

B&O 800 makes its station stop in Akron as the full 2007 tourist season gets underway. In this view, Akron rejuvenation is evident with the newly completed and already sold out Condominium project... (more)

Four unit consist in the yard, along with 4 other idle units, looking nice and clean on a lovely, but very hot Saturday in Akron.

Thornton Street bridge looking north toward downtown where the Erie yards were located off to the left and the old Erie frieght station is visible above the first autorack in the consist.

Cuyahoga Valley runs an RDC extra the week before the normal season commences.

CSX merchandise freight with ex BN road engines in the MU consist sandwiching a CSX unit. In the right foreground is an active spur into McNeil Industries and Rubber City Machinery.

CSX Q381 with all run through BNSF power passes Exchange street with downtown Akron as a backdrop on an abnormally beautiful January day for Ohio.

CSX premeir trailer train with NS power in the lead finds a peek of sun between fog banks.

Little is left of the AC&Y RR, but on the former headquarters building in Akron this brass letterboard has survived.

A mother-slug set pose underneath the old coaling tower at Akron Yard on a snowy spring morning.

CSX multilevel train passes by a stealth fighter "flying" on this University of Akron building in the last rays of sun.

Two SD40-2's still in EMD Leasing scheme shove 50 mty hoppers back to the Wheeling connection.

The Cuyahoga Valley Classic passes throught the Goodyear Tire/Rubber Plant on its way south to Canton.

B&O painted FPA passes the "Alco fountain of youth" this warm morning.

If the BNSF is power short today, this is why. I would have loved to see the new GEVOs leading!