The Best of the Rest of the Lima Limited

A while back I posted a story about a chase of an excursion train that I made between Springfield and Lima, Ohio, that was led northbound by a former Clinchfield F unit.

Here are two more images from that chase that didn’t make it into the original post.

In the top image the Clinchfield unit is trailing as the train heads southbound to return to Springfield.

The image was made at Clay Road south of St. Johns, Ohio.

In the bottom image the consist passes through a stand of color on each side of the former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton tracks at Santa Fe-New Knoxville Road north of Quincy, Ohio.

The excursion was sponsored by The Ohio Rail Experience and billed as a fall foliage special.

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