Akron Railroad Club member Jeff Troutman spotted Norfolk Southern locomotive 9-1-1 on Thursday morning at 11:06 in Painesville.
The Honoring First Responders SD60 was on the point of manifest freight 316 headed eastbound on the Cleveland District to Buffalo, New York.
Akron Railroad Club member Jeff Troutman sent along this image of Amtrak’s eastbound Lake Shore Limited passing through Painesville just past 9:33 a.m. on Tuesday.
At the time, No. 48 had departed Cleveland 3 hours, 17 minutes behind schedule.
An online report indicated that the lateness could be attributed in part to the need to replace a bad-ordered car in Chicago.
No. 48 was 2 hours, 38 minutes late leaving Chicago Union Station on Tuesday night.
As often happens, things didn’t get better from there. When it departed Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday afternoon, No. 48 was nearly 6 hours late.
The train arrived in New York City at 11:42 p.m., five hours and 19 minutes late. The Boston section arrived at 1:47 a.m., five hours and 46 minutes late.
Akron Railroad Club members Edward Ribinskas and Jeff Troutman ventured to New York State on Saturday to chase the Arcade & Attica steam tourist train.
They’ve been there before but what was different this time was that A&A was celebrating its 100th anniversary by operating its 2-8-0 Alco No. 18 with its nose facing west rather than east as is the custom.
In the top photograph, No. 18 is read to depart from Curriers, New York. In the bottom photograph No. 18 rests at Curriers during its first run.
The A&A ran two trips last Saturday, both of them departing from Arcade, New York.
The Grand River Railroad shuttles cars between Grand River and Painesville, Ohio, connecting with CSX at the latter.
It operates a pair of EMD switchers that have been repainted into a livery similar to that of the Baltimore & Ohio.
It doesn’t go very far, just a few miles and has a bit of street running in Grand River.
Akron Railroad Club member Jeff Troutman caught the GRR last week and send along this photos.
In the top image, the train is coming down the hill and about to enter the street running.
In the bottom image it works the interchange in Painesville.
Norfolk Southern No. 8101, the Central of Georgia heritage unit, passed through Cleveland around noon on Monday.
It was leading an 888 coal train en route to Buffalo, New York, and came through Painesville at 1:45 p.m., where Akron Railroad Club member Jeff Troutman caught it with his cell phone.
The train took the former Nickel Plate Road mainline all the way east from Bellevue after coming up the Sandusky District from Columbus. The train originated in West Virginia.
Akron Railroad Club member Jeff Troutman sent along a couple of images that he made while out and about recently.
The top image was made on the Grand River Railway near the Morton Salt facility. The short-line railroad continues to use a leased CSX locomotive.
The image shows construction of a loader at the plant that will use computer technology to load covered hopper cars with salt.
An online report indicated that the first of two switchers that he has ordered continues to languish on CSX in Willard.
The switcher has flat spots that it endured while in transit. Reportedly, the locomotive will be sent to a repair shop in Indiana.
The second photo shows trains of Norfolk Southern and CSX stopped in the yard at Carson due to a track work project ahead.
Fellow Akron Railroad Club member Jeff Troutman was waiting in Painesville for the I87 to arrive. He was standing on the sidewalk on Bank Street and got these images of the Savannah & Atlanta unit shortly after it led the I87 over the trestle spanning the Grand River.
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