Trains C22 and C32 shuttled steel products daily between Mingo Junction, OH and Allenport, PA. The train stopped running after Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel closed its Allenport Plant.
C32 has a rolling meet with an eastbound van train at CP Leets. This was the fourth westbound I shot in less than an hour.
A nice EMD mix rolls west through Glenfield as an SD40-2/GP40-2 combo leads the C32 back to Mingo Junction.
The entire lenghts of C32 fits in this view as it heads west towards Conway with an all Conrail lashup.
This shot has alot of Conrail memories in it...Two still Conrail painted SD50's lead several Conrail Gons across Yellow Creek with the almost frozen over Ohio River in the background. The large st... (more)
The Shire Oaks local heads north (geographically east) across the OC Bridge as it returns to Conway.
Shire Oaks-to-Mingo Junction train C32 crosses the OC Bridge in Pittsburgh. The ramp in the foreground is the Island Connecting Track.
