The Wheeing & Lake Erie Toledo local works it's way through Bellevue on a fairly warm winter afternoon.
18M has just made use of the Mad River Connection, and now heads south on the Sandusky District towards Columbus, Portsmouth, Williamson and beyond.
Retired SD9M number 52 is the newest addition to the Mad River & Nickel Plate Museum in Bellevue. A sister engine, NS 57, was sent off to Fort Wayne and is planned to be repainted into NKP livery... (more)
Shop forces discuss the plans to back the 329 out onto the turntable and get it serviced for the midnight train heading for Fort Wayne. This scene is part of the September 2009 photo shoot at the ... (more)
NS has the Wheeling waiting - this is the train to Toledo and they showed up in Bellevue mid-day but sat until after dark while NS worked through a log jam of their own trains, denying a daylight ... (more)
NS Bellevue yard wouldn't take them, so the Wheeling transfer train is tied down on the interchange and the crew on their rest waiting for Bellevue yard to handle them while my Subaru waits also.
A NS manifest works its way though Bellevue to head south on the Sandusky District past a set of signals on the former Pennsy (sold to N&W in 1964) while the former NKP heads west to the left.
178 passes the hulk of a Penn Central E8 as it eases into Bellevue...a study in contrast between different eras of EMD locomotive design.
A once proud member of the New York Central passenger fleet, this E8 has now been wasting away on a side track in Bellevue for 15 years.
Flanges squeal as 218 grinds into the southern leg of the New Haven Connection on a cold winter day. Second in consist is a UP C40-8 being leased to NS.
A pair of CN-painted C44-9W's crawl into Bellevue on the point of M84, and extra section of 184.
After being retired by NS, SD9M number 52 found itself delivered to the museum in Bellevue.
A pair of CN units lead a mixed freight, likely some variant of 184, into Bellevue, passing the many golden-oldies of the NKP & Mad River Museum.
Awaiting a new crew in Klines Yard.
218 starts into the New Haven Connection in Bellevue, passing a small, quaint farm setting along the way.
