Remember last July? Remember the day of the Akron Railroad Club picnic? It was warm that day and most of us had shorts on with t-shirts or short sleeve shirts.
CSX cooperated and ran some trains. Nothing out of the ordinary came past that day. Unlike at the 2016 picnic, a report of a heritage unit on the Fort Wayne Line of Norfolk Southern didn’t send several of us scurrying to intercept it at Massillon or some other point.
As is typical of the CSX New Castle Subdivision, there were some long lulls between trains.
The action picked up some late in the day. Those of us still there even walked down the street and stood next to the easternmost building in “downtown” Warwick to catch the K182 as it rolled into the nice early evening light.
About 15 minutes earlier, the photo line had captured local D750 returning to its home base after working in Akron and Barberton.
It remains to be determined if the ARRC will return to Warwick in 2018 for its annual picnic or go elsewhere. The officers will hash that out in January.
In the meantime, here are a few memories of this year’s picnic.
The K182 had a hopper car still wearing the Family Lines markings.
After a long day, the D750 returns to its home base in Warwick.
The rear of the U700 lumbering eastbound.
Westbound train Q375 makes an appearance.
The westbound Q299 had a road slug in its motive power consist.
Here comes the Q299 making some smoke as it accelerates.
The Q235 rolls around the curve and into Warwick. It was one of two auto rack trains that came through town during the late morning hours.
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