It is the fall of 1968 and Erie Lackawanna Nos. 3625 and 3626 sit outside the diesel shop in Marion. Both units are EMD SD45s. The scene is the same in both images but one features a wider view and other a closer look.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
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EL Monday: SD45s in Marion
January 16, 2023EL Monday: Running Through Akron
November 8, 2021
A pair of Erie Lackawanna SD45s, Nos. 3601 and 3603, lead a westbound in Akron most likely in late-1967 or early 1968. Note the Central of Georgia boxcar toward the front wearing a livery that you probably haven’t seen in a long time.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
EL Monday: Back to July 1972 in Kent
August 2, 2021
The wayback machine is set for 1972 in Kent. We see SD45 No. 3610 on a westbound on July 22, 1972. The unit was built for the EL in June 1967 and would later spend time on the Conrail roster.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
A Twofer EL Monday
April 27, 2020
Today’s Erie Lackawanna Monday is a twofer and it is not because there are two photographs shown above. Nor is it because both images were made in Akron.
No, this is a twofer day because each image has two of the same thing.
In the top image, we see two nearly new EL SD45 units, Nos. 3625 and 3624 leading a train east in mid 1968 where Wilbeth Road used to cross the railroad tracks in Akron.
This must be a time-sensitive train given the first two cars appear to be reefers and the visible trailing cars are trailers on flat cars.
In the bottom image EL 04949 and C176 are on the rear of an westbound freight in downtown Akron in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
We can only imagine how many countless railroad photographs made in Akron have featured the twin spires of St. Bernard’s Church on University Avenue.
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