Cheating the Executioner

By the time that this photo was taken in May, 1979, Conrail’s big Alco’s were making their last stand in Ohio ore service. They would soon be cut up, b... (more)

A pair of CSX trains come to a stop at the fuel racks at Collinwood Yard on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. CSX 275 is leading manifest freight Q368 as it comes out of the yard, while CSX 5345 i... (more)

On a rather hot July morning in northeast Ohio, CSX Q09015 is seeing flying through Station E on its way east to the Railex Terminal in Schenectady, NY. Leading the way is UP 8961 an EMD SD70AH, a... (more)

A CSX GP40-2 moves the hulking shell of an STL&H SD40-2 and a small cut of cars in the Collinwood Yard in Cleveland, Ohio.

Locomotives:
CSX 6143 GP40-2
STLHA 5651 SD40-2

A former Pennsylvania Rail Road C628 stands in the former New York Central Collinwood yard.

Conrail RSD5 6802 awaits its fate in the deadline at Collinwood, Ohio. Unfortunately, that fate was the scrapper’s torch.

On their way from their birthplace to their new home on the Santa Fe, five brand new C30-7’s travel west out of Conrail’s Collinwood yard.

From the bridge over Collinwood yard, we could see a train with some Santa Fe power getting up air to head west under cloudy skies. As a sucker hole in the clouds opened up, the train started movi... (more)

Conrail’s Collinwood shops are hosting the usual assortment of CR power, with some visitors, too. The U30C is a Detroit Edison unit, while the four GP38-2’s belong to the Cleveland Electric Il... (more)

The Century Catalog: Throwing out the high (C855), and throwing out the low (C415), both of which were specialty models, Alco’s entire catalog of Century-series locomotives is represented in t... (more)

Nice site to see with 3 matching SOO SD60's heading east.

Q357 is waiting to depart once Q268 comes in off the high side to do their work in Collinwood Yard.