Three Ohio Central units line up in the early morning in Youngstown, including a former SP Tunnelmotor. Now that Ohio Central has been bought out, what will become of these units?

Originally built for the Indiana Harbor Belt (8845) in the 1950's this switcher now moves scrap from railroad cars around the facility, most of which had shorter lives.

Midwest Steel and Alloy 1201 switches 3 scrap cars around in a junk yard as the sun burns off the morning fog. The engine was built in 1950 as IHB 8845. Check out all the employees and welders gri... (more)

AC6000CW 6077 (the last of eight such units built by GE for BHP Iron Ore) leads SD40R 3096 through Bing with an inbound ore train to Port Hedland.

Baldwins were tough little coal haulers in the 60' and 70's. Monongahela loved Baldwins so much they even purchsed the second hand NYC RF 16 cab units.

C36-7M rebuilds 5052 and 5051 haul an empty ore rake across the Dampier Causeway from Parker Point, bound for nearby Seven Mile Yard.

GE C40-8M 5648 leads SD70MACe 4303 and SD40R 3082 arround the curve at the top of the grade at Garden on a 24,000 ton ore train that has two helper locomotives 100 cars back.

Cab of former Amtrak CF7 586 stored with the rusted hulk of ex SP 9316. For more pics of locos at LTE see my web site at http://gallery121707.fotopic.net/c1121986.html

The sun is setting - and on Alabama steel production as well. There are other posted shots which I suspect are made at this locale showing an abandoned Alco.

A string of Ohio Central geeps sit at the site of the former Republic Steel inhouse railroad. Center Street use to be lined with blast furances, today it a sorry brownfield with nothing remaining.

BHP 4310 3090 working hard on a loaded ore train crossing an empty at Hesta in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

Taking the new alignment through a re-worked Center St., 137 highballs west towards Chicago.

The Ohio & pennsylvania trash train power has tied down at the shops next to the Mahoning Valley power and some stored engines. The CQPA ex FEC unit has been scrapped. Taken with permission.

A colorful ex Reading,BAR,ex Erie Lackawanna set passes some of the steel mill buildings in Youngstown.