New York Central 4106, 4017, and two other E7 passenger diesels form an E7B/E7A/E7B/E7B lash-up of stored units at Collinwood Yard in Cleveland. The image was made somewhere between 1967-1969. Behind them appears to be a damaged EMD Geep.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
A trio of Penn Central locomotives, Nos. 2552, 2649, and 6337, lead a train through Collinwood Yard in Cleveland during the period of 1969 to 1972.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
It is Feb. 8, 2003, a Saturday, at the Cleveland Amtrak station, the last full day of service by the Chicago-Philadelphia Pennsylvanian. It was just over four years ago that Amtrak extended the then New York-Pittsburgh Pennsylvanian to Chicago and rescheduled it operate during daylight hours through Northeast Ohio.
At the time, Amtrak expected increased mail and express revenue to pay for the extension. But then a new Amtrak president decided that the head-end revenue gambit wasn’t working and Amtrak was pulling back expansions it had undertaken as part of it.
In the top image the penultimate eastbound Pennsylvanian to serve Cleveland is arriving in the station on time. I would ride it as far as Pittsburgh, spend a few hours there, and catch the last westbound Pennsylvanian to run through Northeast Ohio.
The last eastbound Pennsylvanian to stop in Cleveland would do so on Sunday morning. The Pennsylvanian would then revert to New York-Pittsburgh operation, which continues to be the case today.
A handful of railroad enthusiasts were on hand to to see and/or ride the Pennsylvanian in Northeast Ohio one final time. Nonetheless, the train was lightly patronized, which underscored another reason why Amtrak ceased operating it west of Pittsburgh.
We would arrive early into Alliance, which gave me time to disembark and make some photographs. Also on board on this day was current Akron Railroad Club newsletter editor Ron McElrath, who made video for his Railroad Video Quarterly series.
Article and Photographs by Craig Sanders
Sometimes the wayback machine turns up a photograph made by an unidentified photographer. Nonetheless, many of you will remember a time when Detroit Edison had a fleet of locomotives that pulled the coal trains feeding its power plants. They were still common sights in Northeast Ohio into the early 1990s.
This image of DEEX No. 011, a GE U40C built in 1972, was made in May 1974 in Cleveland at what appears to be Collinwood Yard. Partly visible is Penn Central F7A No. 1787, a former New York Central locomotive.
Collection of Robert Farkas
Here are two photos of New York Central No. 8407 (ex-Chicago River & Indiana) taken in a scrapyard in Cleveland.
The unit is a Lima-Hamilton 1,200 horsepower locomotive that was scrapped after the second photo was taken. The images were made on June 29, 1968, and July 22, 1973, respectively.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Sometimes a scene captures a special time in history. It is Feb. 24 or 25, 1968, in Cleveland. The Penn Central era had begun less than a month (Feb. 1) prior to this photo. New York Central No. 1049, an Alco FA-2, sits near the diesel shop at Collinwood Yard. In the far background are a few PC boxcars. Had these not been there, this would look like a NYC photo.
Article and Photograph by Robert Farkas
On Saturday afternoon NS train 310 derailed at Sandusky taking out all tracks. All trains were either cancelled or rerouted.
The reroutes went from Oak Harbor to Vermillion via Bellevue.
This included the four Amtrak trains that use the route. Trains 30 and 48 were combined at Toledo and 29 and 49 were combined at Cleveland for the reroute.
I caught the combined eastbound at Cleveland where the trains were split again for their respective routes.
In the top two images, the combined Nos. 40 and 48 are shown being split at Cleveland station.
The third photo shows the Capitol Limited at East 26th Street while the bottom image shows the Lake Shore Limited at East 38th Street.
On Sunday Amtrak 30 was cancelled. Amtrak 48 turned at Toledo and, I presume, Nos. 49 and 29 will also turn at Cleveland with a bus bridge between the two cities.
Article and Photographs by Todd Dillon
Conrail B36-7 No. 5046 is pulling an intermodal train in the Cleveland area in August 1984. The unit was built in December 1983 and later wound up working for the Eastrada de Ferro Vitoria-Minas railway in Brazil.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Penn Central F7As 1807 and 1756 are among several locomotives in the engine facility in Collinwood Yard in Cleveland in March 1973.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
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