
Boston & Maine No. 1746 also sit at the EL yard in Kent. I saw several trains with B&M lashups in the late 1960s/early 1970s. The railfan on the right is Mike Ondecker.

No, it’s not Nickel Plate Rod No. 765 but NKP 759 in Conneaut on Sept. 8, 1968, where it would head its first excursion after being restored.

Not a perfect head-on shot, but Chicago, South Shore & South Bend No. 702 suns itself on a cold March 30, 1969, in Michigan City, Indiana.

It is back to Akron with Chessie Steam Special Chesapeake & Ohio No. 614 sitting at the Baltimore & Ohio engine facility on June 24,1981.
For safety’s sake, I rarely took nose shots, but sometimes a locomotive would be sitting still, or I would use a telephoto lens from a safe location.
Here are a few different 30-plus-year-old “noses” taken within a day’s drive radius of Akron.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
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June 20, 2015 at 11:26 pm |
Robert, I ,to inspect the 759 in Conneaut about that time,before
they put it in service!
Jim
June 23, 2015 at 4:53 pm |
[…] post – Akron Railroad Club’s blog’s post; Just Being Nosey With My Camera (click here to read). It’s interesting to find how relatively few of these shots I could muster, though […]
August 29, 2015 at 9:01 pm |
Great pics really enjoy your work
August 29, 2015 at 9:05 pm |
Was that really Mike Ondecker from K S U