Before the big Alco's were scraped for good, they went to Mingo Junction to perform heavy duty mineral hauling on Conrail.
5300 was the flagship of the RDG Alco 630s.
The big ALCO CC units were drawn from all over the new Conrail system congregating at Mingo. LV, EL, PC and RDG. Conrail was moving fast to sand off the old logos and names to create a new corpora... (more)
An ex-Conrail GP38-2 still dressed in good looking Operation Lifesaver paint.
An eclectic set of power!
Note size of fuel tank
Taken back in the day when a kid could wander around a yard willy-nilly. Thanks to my father for patiently sitting in the car for hours, reading the paper.
An OC grain for Conrail pulls up the Fern Industrial Track.
Ohio Central 7220 leads the first NRHS convention excursion eastbound towards Gould Tunnel, which is about 1.5 miles to the east
Maersk in Mingo, NS 3329 led the C30 to Mingo on June 20th, here she rests waiting for her next call to duty
Back from 92 day inspection and servicing at Conway, the 937 is ready to work 400 yard hump at Mingo
SD70 2506 brought in a slab train for Weirton/Mittal Steel, here she rests after the crew tied her down for the night
After taking a steel slab train to Mittal/Weirton Steel, the 2651 is pulled to astop on Cross Creek Siding
