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Akron Railroad Club members gathered in mid afternoon for the traditional group photo during the seventh Dave McKay day outing at Berea, which was held on April 2, 2011. Shown by the McKay memorial are (left to right) Richard Thompson, Marty Surdyk, William Surdyk, Craig Sanders, Cody Zamostny (and his nephew), Drew Deneher, John Puda, Tom Kendra, Alex Bruchac, Bill Kubis and Dennis Taksar.
Dennis Taksar arrived just before 6 a.m. and recorded the first train of the day, a coal train on CSX with Union Pacific power in the lead. The longevity award went to John Puda who arrived at 7:05 a.m. and remained on site for the remainder of the day.
Although club members were treated to a steady flow of traffic, none of the trains that rolled by featured anything special in the way of motive power of freight cars. Foreign power was relatively scarce and primarily limited to BNSF units.
ARRC member Dave Mangold rolled through just after 7 a.m. behind the throttle of Norfolk Southern train 20V, but didn’t notice any club members present in the darkness. However, former club member Tony Dannemiller was the conductor on CSX intermodal train Q148 and he did make his presence known as his stack train came by just before 4:30 p.m. He leaned out the engineer’s side window and waved.
During the noon hour, CSX had both main tracks out of service for maintenance and NS had one of its mains out of service for the same reason. That limited traffic for awhile, but club members did not have to endure any interminably long lulls.
Nearly 20 club members and guests turned out for the event during the day, which was quite cool but mostly sunny throughout. The weather began cloudy and ended that way, but in between the forecast snow showers and rain failed to materialize. The temperatures began in the mid 30s and improved only into the mid 40s.
Table of Trains Recorded at Berea (April 2, 2011)
NR NR UP (NR) 5:52 a.m. (on CSX)
Q149 WB CSXT 7600 6:35 a.m.
X096 EB NR 6:59 a.m. (on CSX)
Q114 EB CSXT 5428 7:06 a.m.
20Q EB NS 9805 7:08 a.m.d
Q263 WB CSXT 308 7:16 a.m.
21T WB NS 7508 7:20 a.m.
20V EB NS 7542 7:21 a.m.
Q366 EB CSXT 4745 7:30 a.m.
24Z EB NS 8450 7:55 a.m.
S393 WB CSXT 5484 8:06 a.m.
L163 WB CSXT 7584 8:54 a.m.
11J WB NS 2615 9:12 a.m.
K689 WB CSXT 936 9:28 a.m.
Q385 WB CSXT 4722 9:35 a.m.
205 WB NS 8898 10:05 a.m.
20R EB NS 6765 10:10 a.m.
Q164 EB CSXT 5300 10:28 a.m.
242 EB NS 9703 10:29 a.m.
Q160 EB CSXT 7375 10:30 a.m.
D752 EB CSXT 6119 10:51 a.m.
N859 EB BSNF 9940 11:03 a.m. (on CSX)
34N EB NS 9425 11:09 a.m.
22K EB NS 9679 11:53 a.m.
21Z WB NS 9633 12:06 p.m.
145 WB NS 8726 NR
Q122 EB CSXT 4749 NR
Q377 WB CSXT 3443 NR
V818 EB CSXT 4759 NR
206 EB NS 9550 1:59 p.m.
Q351 WB CSXT 7633 2:07 p.m.
261 WB NS 2635 2:13 p.m.
D752 WB CSXT 8305 2:19 p.m.
24M EB NS 9265 2:23 p.m.
Q378 EB CSXT 4797 2:41 p.m.
20E EB NS 7556 2:57 p.m.
14K EB NS 9860 3:15 p.m.
Q108 EB CSXT 7363 3:15 p.m.
18N EB NS 9687 3:23 p.m.
Q386 EB CSXT 5312 3:42 p.m.
Q393 WB CSXT 4785 3:42 p.m.
316 EB NS 9761 3:51 p.m.
21G WB NS 8348 3:54 p.m.
Q110 EB CSXT 778 3:58 p.m.
Q123 WB CSXT 5382 3:58 p.m.
M1V WB NS 6773 4:17 p.m.
Q148 EB CSXT 7332 4:24 p.m.
Q157 WB CSXT 7827 4:30 p.m.
15N WB NS 8315 4:45 p.m.
Q364 EB CSXT 7683 4:47 p.m.
21Q WB NS 9803 4:58 p.m.
262 EB NS 9716 5:07 p.m.
NR WB NS (NR) 5:10 p.m.
11G WB NS 9751 5:30 p.m.
K695 WB CSXT 5473 5:45 p.m.
19A WB NS 9351 6 p.m.
Q109 WB CSXT 5267 6:09 p.m.
573 EB NS 7687 6:10 p.m.
N859 EB BNSF 9928 6:43 p.m. (on CSX)
K925 EB CSXT 7731 6:51 p.m.
Q290 EB CSXT 314 7:03 p.m.
L115 WB CSXT 5303 7:03 p.m.
25Z WB NS 9893 7:09 p.m.
11V WB NS 9791 7:21 p.m.
14N EB NS 9762 7:25 p.m.
K683 WB CSXT 5350 7:59 p.m.
23K WB NS 7671 8:13 p.m.
Q117 WB CSXT 5247 8:15 p.m.
Q380 EB CSXT 5472 8:20 p.m.
15K WB NS (NR) 8:31 p.m.
Q381 WB BNSF 7622 8:40 p.m. (on CSX)
Tags: Akron Railroad Club, ARRC Dave McKay Day, Berea Ohio, railfanning at Berea Ohio
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