Here are coming and going shots of a Baltimore & Ohio merchandise freight in Akron in October 1971. On the point is F7A No. 4625, which was built in January 1953. The location is opposite the McCoy Street Yard on the Erie Lackawanna.
Photographs by Richard Jacobs
The Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore & Ohio shared tracks between Arlington Street in Akron and Warwick Tower. The line featured B&O color position light signals. Shown is an early Conrail eastbound train passing the east edge of Akron Union Depot in April 1976. By then passenger trains had been gone for almost five years.
Photograph by Richard Jacobs
It doesn’t look like a Conrail train but it is. Three former Penn Central motors, Nos. 6067, 6278 and 6255, lead a westbound in Akron on June 5, 1976. Conrail would have been barely two months old at this point.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
The wayback machine has accommodated us in an unusual request. Find us a motive power consist of units numbered sequentially. Our wish has been granted. Shown are Baltimore & Ohio GP40 Nos. 4046, 4045 and 4044 westbound in Akron on June 3, 1978. All three would later work for CSX and all would find another life working for a short line railroad.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
CSX GP40-2 No. 6163 is westbound with an intermodal train in Akron on Sept. 3, 1987. The building on the right was a mattress factory. The motive power consist is a good example of what you could find during the early CSX years when locomotives wearing Chessie System colors were still in plentiful supply. Oh, what we might give to see a consist like this again. The 6163 was built for the Chesapeake & Ohio in January 1978 with roster number 4264
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Today’s two for Tuesday features a CSX tribute locomotive. In the top image CSX ES44AC No. 1776 leads a westbound train in Akron on March 4, 2024. The 1776 is painted in a commemorative livery that combines CSX dark blue and yellow on the front of the locomotive with gray camouflage on the sides and top.
The paint scheme celebrates the five main branches of military service and features the CSX Pride in Service logo along with the logos of the program partners — Wounded Warriors, Blue Star Families, Operation Homefront and Operation Gratitude. It is named Spirit of our Veterans.
In the bottom image CSX C44-6 No. 687 is westbound on June 24, 2004.
Both images were made in the approximate same location near Voris Street about a decade apart. Note how the scene has changed.
The 687 was built in October 1999 and is no longer on the CSX motive power roster. At last report it was property of Progress Rail.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
How many F units does it take to pull a caboose? Apparently the answer is three. Penn Central F7A No. 1729 is eastbound in Akron with two other units and a caboose in March 1975. The 1729 was built in March 1952 for the New York Central and would have roster number 1729 throughout its service life, which included time spent on the Conrail motive power roster.
Photograph by Richard Jacobs
A pair of switch engines rest between assignments in the McCoy Street Yard complex in downtown Akron on the Erie Lackawanna in March 1971. In the foreground is a sanding tower and its associated service building. There was a lot of rich detail to be photographed around engine terminals and yards.
Photograph by Richard Jacobs
It is the late 1960s in Akron. A westbound Erie Lackawanna train with an EMD F3A, an Alco RS3, and a GE U25B is rounding the curve at the Wilbeth Road walk bridge.. The two other tracks at the bottom of the photo are the Baltimore & Ohio mainline.
Photograph by Robert Farakas
Western Maryland GP40-2 No. is in Akron in June 1979. The unit was built in November 1978 and would later would be CSX 6216.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
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