Central Ohio 4-6-2 No. 1293 (formerly Ohio Central 1293) is southbound on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in Jaite on Sept. 29, 2012. The former Canadian Pacific steam was hau ling Steam In The Valley 2012 excursions. In the image above, it has almost passed the ex-Baltimore & Ohio train order station.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Seeing Todd Dillon’s article and photos of Nickel Plate Road 765 at Vaughn Road on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad at Jaite prompted me to look through my files for same location favorites.
Morning photos were preferred on the east side of the tracks and afternoon from the west side. All these photos as Todd’s were are from the east side.
This location is probably now the favored spot since the Ohio Route bridge in Brecksville is so grown in with trees and brush.
Looking through old photos the only photos I have of Grand Trunk Western 4070 are from the west side of the tracks.
From top to bottom, the images were made on Sept. 29,2012; Sept. 14, 2013; Sept. 7 2014, and Sept. 26, 2016.
Article and Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
Ohio Central 4-6-2 No. 1293 is shown on Sept. 6, 2012, on the OC heading north for Steam in the Valley on the Cuyahoga Scenic Railroad. In the top image, the train is leaving Sugarcreek. The photographer did not remember where he made the bottom image. Built by Canadian Locomotive Works in 1948, the former Canadian Pacific locomotive is younger than the photographer.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
During the days when it was pulling excursions on the Ohio Central system, former Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 1293 passed through Baltic, Ohio, countless times. Some of those trips involved pulling the tourist train between Sugarcreek and Baltic. That was the locomotive’s assignment in August 1998 when Bob caught it bound for Baltic. The 1293 is still operable but opportunities for it to pull excursions trains have become exceedingly rare.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Chances are many of you reading this already know that 1293 refers to a steam locomotive once owned by Canadian Pacific and later purchased and operated by the late Jerry Jacobson. The 4-6-2 was a mainstay of the Ohio Central steam program and the most active steamer during the years of Akron Railroad Club steam excursions. In the image above the 1293 and its train are southbound under the Ohio Route 93 bridge in Dundee in the fall. This photograph was made, most likely, in October 1999.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Following the 1990 operating season, steam motive power was absent from the Cuyahoga Valley Line until 2007.
In the interim the CVL renamed itself the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad and acquired a fleet of diesel locomotives.
It also opened a station at Boston Mill on the site of a former factory.
September 2007 saw the return of steam operations when former Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 1293, owned by Jerry Jacobson, pulled some excursions.
The 1293 returned returned the next year and again in September 2012.
The top image shows the 1293 passing through Boston Mill on Sept. 18, 2007. The middle image shows the former general store that at the time this image was made on Sept. 29, 2012, had been converted into apartments.
The final image was made by the CVSR station on Sept. 30, 2012.
Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
Ohio Central steam locomotives made occasional appearances off their home rails. Such was the case on June 16, 2007, when 4-6-2 Pacific-type No. 1293 ran on the Byesville Scenic Railway in Southern Ohio.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Here are some of my favorites when Canadian Pacific No. 1293 visited the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in September 2012. The show opens with a pair of images made on back-to-back days of the southbound excursion train along the Cuyahoga River at Brecksville with the iconic Ohio Route 82 bridges in the background.
Next up is a pair of views made at Everett on separate days. That is followed by two views made in Akron at milepost 43 behind the Merriman Woods housing development.
The final three images were made during a trip to Canton and are in southeast Akron near the Goodyear complex.
Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
Many remember Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 1293 as one of four Pacific-type locomotives that operated ay Steamtown USA in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
 For the 1976 U.S. bicentennial, No. 1293 operated on the Vermont’’ Bicentennial Steam Exhibition. The 1980 horror movie Terror Train, starred Jamie Lee Curtis and CP No. 1293, which had been renumbered as 1881.
After Steamtown’s relocation to Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1983, the 1293 in not operated.
The top photo shows the 1293 at Steamtown in Scranton during our visit there in 1995.
Little did we know that it would be purchased by Jerry Jacobson the following year and be relocated to the Ohio Central.
After a 13-month restoration, the 1293 debuted on a September 1997 weekend photo special, shown in the top photo below.
Three weeks later it ran on a trip with Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 13 for the Akron Railroad Club on Oct. 11, 1997.
The next two photographs show the 1293 during photo runbys at Barrs Mills.
The last photo shows the steamer doing a runby north of Dundee.
Former Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 1293 was once a mainstay when Ohio Central used to operate steam excursions.
The Pacific-type locomotive sometimes ran as a CP steam and sometimes as an Ohio Central locomotive.
In 2012 it assumed another identity Central Ohio 1293. It is shown above on Sept. 6, 2012 on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Navarre en route to Akron.
The 1293 would pull a series of excursions on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad that year.
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