Erie Lackawanna RS3 No. 1044 is in Marion in the late 1960s passing the Marion Union Station. Behind me is EL’s Marion Yard with its diesel shop.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Posts Tagged ‘EL motive power’
EL Monday: An RS3 in Marion
June 7, 2021EL Monday: Alco Parade in Akron
February 8, 2021
The late Mike Ondecker and I were in Akron when I took these two images on Agfachrome film on July 23, 1972.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
EL Monday: Reposing in Marion
January 25, 2021
Erie Lackawanna No. 7091 sits at the engine house in Marion in December 1967. The unit was built by EMD in February 1949 for the Erie Railroad where it has roster number 709A. It was later converted to an F7A and given EL roster number 7101.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
EL Monday: Eastbound in Akron
January 18, 2021
There is some variety in this intermodal train on the Erie Lackawanna that is running eastbound through Akron on Sept. 4, 1972. The motive power consist includes EL 3640, 3668, 2562 along with Delaware & Hudson No. 602.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
EL Monday: Check Out This Lineup
January 4, 2021
The late Mike Ondecker and I were at the Erie Lackawanna Kent yard in 1967 or 1968 where I photographed this eastbound during a crew change. The units include 2554 (EMD GP35), (unidentified) (EMD F7B), 7063 (EMD F3), 2501 (GE U25), 7081 (EMD F3A), and 7254 (Alco FALCO FA-1).
Photographs by Robert Farkas
EL Monday: An RS3 in Marion
October 19, 2020
Erie Lackawanna RS3 No. 1019 leads a movement through the interlocking plant in Marion in mid 1973.
No. 1019 was built for the Erie by Alco in April 1951. Given that there is a caboose behind the locomotive this might be a local job.
It is crossing the Norfolk & Western and tracks by AC Tower in front of Marion Union Station. Although passenger service by Penn Central had ended two years earlier, the platforms are still in place.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
EL Monday: At the Wilbeth Footbridge in Akron
October 5, 2020
It’s the late 1960s in Akron and a westbound Erie Lackawanna intermodal train is passing beneath the Wilbeth Road footbridge.
On the point are EL 7104, 7393, and 6561 with the latter still painted in its original Erie Railroad livery.
Note the Baltimore & Ohio color position signal on an adjacent track, which was also used by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
EL Monday From Marion
July 6, 2020
The late Mike Ondecker used an Instamatic camera to photograph Erie Lackawanna Alco FA2 No. 7391 and Alco S1 switcher 307 in Marion in 1967 or 1968.
No. 307 still wears its Erie Railroad livery and it should feel at home with No. 7391 because it, too, is of Erie heritage.
A website that tracks the whereabouts of former EL locomotives reports that No. 307 is still around and was last owned by the New York Cross Harbor Railroad.
Although No. 7391 did not survive, you can buy an HO scale model of it from Walters.
Photograph by Mike Ondecker
Another EL Monday
December 16, 2019
It’s another Monday morning so let’s dial up the Erie Lackawanna in the wayback machine before getting to work for the week.
In the top image, it’s early 1973 in Kent. That’s EMD E8A No. 812 sandwiched into that motive power consist.
No. 812 was built for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in spring 1951 and carried the same roster number.
In the bottom image, Alco RS-2 No. 921 is reposing at the engine facility at Brier Hill yard near Youngstown on Oct. 1, 1972.
No. 921 was built in February 1952 for the Erie Railroad.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Downtown Akron in the late 1960s
June 13, 2019
Sometimes its hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since the 1960s ended. It was an era of transition for the railroad industry in Akron and elsewhere and many of those who lived through those years can’t get enough images of what once was.
So let’s climb aboard the wayback machine and step off on the platform of Akron Union Depot where we see Baltimore & Ohio No. 6939 leading a trailer train past the station.
On a nearby track is an Erie Lackawanna freight led by an Alco RS-3 or RS-2 along with an EMD F7B, EMD F3B, GE U25B, EMD F3B, and EMD F7A.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
