Dawn breaks over Hamden as Ohio South Central 104 trundles out of the yard. A lot has changed for the old B&O mainline, but the codeline, at least for a few yards, is still here.
Originally CRIP >CNW >RRC Unit is good to see again in this tiny yard, in a tiny town in rural Buckeye land. A bucolic remnant of B&O and DT&I.
OSCR 104, an ex-Frisco GP7 is tied up with a former Conrail/Great Miami ballast car and caboose on a brisk December weekend. Ohio South Central, sister company to the Indiana Eastern Railroad too... (more)
A little over fourty years ago, one could stand track side anywhere between Parkersburg and Cincinnati and watch high speed manifests, piggyback trains, and even the short-lived Shenandoah passeng... (more)
Power for the Ohio South Central Railroad spends the weekend in the yard in Hamden. This railroad took over operations from US Rail on the former B&O and DT&I lines owned by the City of Jackson ea... (more)
Various old and beat up power sits out in the small yard US Rail has in Hamden.
Sometimes you never know what you will find when driving the back roads here in Ohio...
Who would have thought that 40+ years later, two N&W acquisitions from the 1964 absorption of the NKP and Wabash would end up as stablemates on a former B&O shortline in southern eastern Ohio. For... (more)
