A former Western Maryland locomotive leads a westbound in Clinton in February 1980. For those who know how much the trees have grown at this location today note how open the view was more than four decades ago..The crossover allowed Conrail trains to access the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad line to Columbus.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
It’s early in the CSX era on May 9, 1987, in Barberton. A westbound has a former Chesapeake & Ohio unit still in Chessie System livery while the trailing unit has an early CSX scheme.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
The wayback machine has taken us back to Massillon on March 22, 1989, for another look at a Baltimore & Ohio geep in the Chessie System livery. It looks a little worn but that is to be expected.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
These photographs were made in about the same location in Clinton 37 years apart. In the top image Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 No. 4150 has a westbound in hand in February 1983. In the bottom image, CSX ES44AC-H No. 3134 leads intemodal train Q137 westbound on Feb. 17, 2020.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Here are two Western Maryland geeps although neither is an original WM Geep but was transferred to tthe WM by the Chessie System.
In the top image No. 5972 and caboose C-2851 are in front of the freight house in Massillon on July 1, 1981. The bottom image shows No. 5971 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, on April 16, 1977.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
We can never get enough Chessie System motive power photographs so let’s double our pleasure with a Chessie two for Tuesday.
In the top image, Chessie System GP40-2 No. 4435 is westbound in Warwick on Sept. 27, 1983. No. 4435 would later become CSX 6449.
In the bottom image, a trio of units wearing Chessie colors and markings leads a westboud through Akron in August 1979.
In the lead is B&O GP38 No. 3836. Notice the decrepit condition of the tracks next to the train.
This week’s two for Tuesday finds us trackside in Barberton in two distinct eras in CSX history.
In the top image, Five CSX locomotives of varying liveries team up to pull a westbound auto rack train through Barberton on the New Castle Subdivision on Sept. 5, 2010. Lead unit 7589 is a GE C40-8 that was built in September 1989.
In the bottom image, we’ve gone back in time more than 22 years to March 11, 1988. This is a CSX train but the motive power all wears liveries of CSX predecessor railroads.
Cumberland, Maryland, was a key terminal on the mainline of the Baltimore & Ohio, a role that continued into the Chessie System and CSX eras.
In the image above Chessie System GP38 No. 3810 (ex-B&O) is on the point of a freight in Cumberland on Sept. 20, 1980.
Similiar images to this reside in the collections of Paul Woodring, Mark Perri, Roger Durfee, and another unidentified railfan who were with the photographer on the day this photograph was created.
Note that the motive power consist also includes a Western Maryland unit and another unit in the B&O livery.
They are both CSX trains, but are running with lead locomotives still wearing Chessie System colors and markings.
The top image is an eastbound in Easton during what looks to be hunting season in fall 1987.
The top image shows a westbound in Akron on Feb. 28, 1988.
It’s an all Chessie System motive power consist aside from an interloper that is still wearing Baltimore & Ohio colors.
To be correct, the lead locomotive, a GP40-2, is a B&O unit that has received the Chessie livery.
The train is eastbound in Akron on May 28, 1978, on former B&O track.
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