Rail grinding 1980 style. This WM SD has provided air and power for this rail grinder waiting out the weekend.

A couple of KSU students watch as a westbound Chessie freight passes by a dam on the Cuyahoga River. It's been dry, so no water is flowing over the spillway.

Pure PC power heads up this westbound on the former EL main during that harsh winter of 76/77.

Three Alco C-628's- one ex PC and two yet to be renumbered Lehigh Valley's- wait for a new crew at the Hudson station.

A Conrail C-630/C-636 pair hauls a short ore train east. These large Alco's are running on borrowed time at this late date.

The crew gets back to work on this former Illinois Terminal unit in a town more noted for it's PRR heritage.

A yet to be renumbered Conrail Alco rests between duties.

An empty DE coal train waits out the New Year holiday near Youngstown, Ohio.

A pair of C&O units pull this westbound through town on B&O rails.

Just a builders view, but this old geep is pretty clean.

An untouched EL unit leads two PC units on this westbound Conrail train. The track the train is on is gone now, as is the bridge I was standing on.

Back during the "D&H era" on the CVSR RS-3 4099 helps out a former CNR cab unit on a northbound. On the rear were two loaded stone cars, hence the extra power for this "mixed" train.

Paducah rebuild GP-10 7561 teams up with a former New Haven Alco C-425(2458)to shift cars in this ex Erie yard.

A very short through freight heads west on the former EL past what's left of the EL yard in town, now used for car storage. Note blue Alco C-630 6769 2nd out.

Western power leads a mix of rent-a-wrecks west on CSX.