Most of the images Ed Ribinskas has made of the former Nickel Plate Road trestle over the Grand River in Painesville were made at the east end of the bridge.
He stayed away from the west end for several years to avoid trespassing on the property of Coe Manufacturing. Another factor was that it would be a tight shot because of tree growth that dated back to the end of the steam locomotive era.
After Coe Manufacturing closed and its building were razed, Ed felt more comfortable scouting for photo angles at the west end.
Nonetheless, it was still a tight shot. The best time of year to photograph the west end of the trestle was during the winter.
“Probably the very few times I photographed there resulted in my best and favorites,” Ed wrote.
The bottom two photographs were made of westbound manifest freight 145 at about 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 2, 2014 (Super Bowl Sunday).
With Ed that day were fellow Akron Railroad Club members Marty Surdyk and Craig Sanders.
The top two images were made in early afternoon on May 6, 2018.
Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
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