
CSX C40-8W No. 7389 is eastbound in Akron on May 20, 2006. The unit was built in November 1994 as Conrail 741. Speaking of which, the 7389 is working with another Conrail unit that still displays its CR livery.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Canadian Pacific motive power is not rare in Northeast Ohio, but is uncommon on the CSX New Castle Subdivision.
The images shown here were made in late August 2004. The top image of CP 6037 running westbound was made in Sterling.
The same locomotive is shown with the same second unit heading east in Clinton on another day.
My guess is the two units got to their western destination, were turned, and sent back east.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
The wayback machine has taken us back to a time when mainline Class 1 freight trains still often had standard cab locomotives, when there were still pole lines in place even if not in use, and when traffic on the CSX New Castle Subdivision was more frequent than it is today.
We’re standing on the bridge carrying Middlebury Road over the tracks on the southwest side of Kent. A westbound stone train is headed back to the quarry in western Ohio to pick up another load of limestone. I believe this train delivered stone that was unloaded at the nearby Shelly Materials facility.
Both images above were made on Sept. 16, 2007, and scanned from slide film.
Photographs by Craig Sanders
Here are three photographs of an eastbound CSX grain train in Clinton on April 23 that featured an all-BNSF motive power consist.
In the top image BNSF 8287 leads the train past the westbound signal home signals located at the far east end of Warwick Yard.
In the middle image is the lead unit directly in front of me. In the bottom image we see BNSF 5143, which is the distributed power unit for the train.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
It’s the morning of July 3, 2021, in Clinton and a pair of horses are grazing in a pasture adjacent to the CSX New Castle Subdivision tracks.
One of the steeds didn’t take well to the passage of a westbound train and has bolted as though coming out of the starting gate in a race (top image). In the middle is another view of the motive consist of the westbound.
In the bottom image is horsepower of a different color. A grain train has a BNSF pumpkin as its sole motive power of this eastbound train in Clinton.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
It is March 4, 2022, and here are my first two digital images from 2022.
In the top image an R.J. Corman train is about to leave its own track, enter Norfolk Southern’s Fort Wayne Line for a very short run, leave NS trackage, and re-enter Corman track again. This is at CP Mace in Massillon where there originally was a diamond before the track arrangement was changed to the present setup. Notice how dark Corman’s red appears when it is backlighted.
In the bottom image, CSX train D750 is eastbound in Clinton on the New Castle Subdivision.
Article and Photographs by Robert Farkas