A pair of CSX GE's lug Q375 up the hill from "BD," splitting the CPL's at "Exchange Street." Note the trailing unit, CSXT 7558, is missing the majority of the "CSX" on the side.

In rich evening lighting, trailer train Q135 coasts westbound out of downtown Akron with a long train in tow. The area on the left is the former site of Erie Railroad's old "McCoy St" yard. The si... (more)

ABC 1502 at Wheeling's Brittain Yard.

Former SOU 2651. These units never were that great, but they sure had a lot of character. When they would actually run they were tough little engines.

After getting word from the IO Dispatcher that an eastbound was dead in the water at Rittman and that two eastbounds were coming up on the single track, Q389 eases towards the "Exchange Street" si... (more)

A quartet of Wheeling engines sits at the old turntable in Brittain Yard. From front to back, the engines are 105, 302, 108, and 301.

A group of four Wheeling locomotives bask in the early afternoon sunlight at Brittain Yard in Akron, Ohio.

B&O 1445 pulls the westbound "Diplomat" past the then-operating Quaker Oats plant just prior to stopping at B&O's Akron Union Station on a fine morning in the late 1960's. Soon the passenger train... (more)

Cuyahoga Valley Line 4070 (ex-GTW 4070) is seen from above where the now CVSR tracks pass under the "Y"-Bridge in Akron, Ohio. Soon it will cut off from the train and wye at the Chessie System yar... (more)

B&O 4054 and WM 7157 head a westbound Chessie System freight past Taber Coal Company. The B&O, WM, Taber Coal Company, and all but two of the tracks are gone now. How sad!

B&O 4590 (F-7A) and an unknown B&O F-7B wait at Akron's B&O yard. This photo was taken in the late 1960's or early 1970's.

B&O 1461 at the front of B&O #7 "The Diplomat" waits at Akron Union Station on an early fall morning in 1968. This is a companion photo to # 341844. (Thanks to Eric Cowan for helping date this p... (more)

B&O #7 "The Diplomat" waits at Akron Union Station on a fall morning in the late 1960's. With B&O 1461 and C&O 4019, it will soon speed westward towards Chicago.

It's 42 years ago, and my world was black and white not color. Here's a Hudson-bound early Penn Central local with PRR 2210 and NYC 1753 heading north under the East Exchange Street bridge. Behin... (more)

Rockside-Akron train 51 sails southbound into the Akron corporation limit by Smith Road. If you look closely, you can see a rainbow appearing in the mist from the fountain.