Here are two grab shots of Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2 No. 7009 pushing its train east on CSX in Akron on Nov. 26. The 7009 had already passed under the Wilbeth Road walk bridge as I got there.
As you can see, that is a small part of industrial Akron in the background of image one as seen through the fence webbing.
The bottom image is actually a zoomed in shot from the same location.
No. 7009 was used in the making of the 2010 movie Unstoppable and for the filming received a specially painted fictional Allegheny & West Virginia Railroad livery of gray, yellow and black.
It has been given a positive train control apparatus.
Article and Photograph by Robert Farkas
Tags: Akron, CSX New Castle Subdivision, EMD SD40-2, W&LE locomotives, W&LE motive power, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wheeling & Lake Erie locomotives
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