Conrail SD40 6291, the ex CNJ 3067 "Red Baron", drifts back to it's train after pushing a stalled train ahead in Akron on a fine March 1977 day. This was the CNJ's only red"Coast Guard" scheme 6 a... (more)
CVSR Train 1 heads for Akron Depot to pick up her first load of passengers for the day's trips, Akron departure at 10:30 a.m. sharp on a beautiful spring day in Northern Ohio.
Running hard for home, CVSR FP4A former CN passenger locomotive remembers her glory days heading home for the barn after a long day of excursion work in the Valley.
After a week of excursions on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railway, OHCR 1293 is on her way back home. The train has just left the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic and is negotiating the Akron Barberton Clust... (more)
Is this "Heavy Equipment"? Cuyahoga Valley is now running her new single train operation, cleverly using one train set in a constant back and forth day between Akron, Peninsula, and Independence. ... (more)
Westbound on the B&O Akron Mainline Sub.
Conductors side of the cab of EMLX 8549, a SD90MAC-HII leased to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway in Ohio. 7 years of service, while not long in locomotive years, has not been kind to this u... (more)
Engineers side of the cab of EMLX 8549, a SD90MAC-HII leased to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway in Ohio.
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)
Alco C424 poses in beautiful morning fall light, waiting for her load of passengers and bicycles before departing south.
Fall color in he morning in the Cuyahoga Valley with Train 3 from Akron heading to Peninsula.
1293 kicks up some gravel and streaks by at track speed to its destination at Akron North Side Station in the final moments of daylight.
There is a lot to take in here as the steam special crosses Cascade Park and is minutes from her destination of CVSR's Akron Northside Station.
