
Ohiio Central tool car Conneaut is in Morgan Run on Oct. 13, 2006. To its right is the nose of former Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 No. 6325.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Today we visit Grafton southwest of Cleveland on the CSX Greenwich Subdivision. This once was part of a New York Central line to Cincinnati and Columbus, and the NYC line to Indianapolis and St. Louis.
Shown is SD40 No. 8635 with an eastbound on July 17, 2010. The unit had been built for the Chesapeake & Ohio in November 1985.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Here are two images of Erie Lackawanna No. 7111 from the same slide taken by an unidentified photographer in an unidentified location and processed in October 1972. The F7A began life as Erie Railroad 711A after being built by EMD in January 1950. The bottom image is a cropped version of the top image. The image is from the collection of Robert Farkas.
It is late 1968 or 1969 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where John Woodworth and I found Monongahela No. 1210, a Baldwin RF16A, sitting in the sun. Unfortunately, I could not get all of the next unit in the frame as well since this was Monongahela No. 3708, the railroad’s only Baldwin RF16B unit.
Article and Photograph by Robert Farkas
It is the late 1960s or early 1970s in Cleveland. Shaker Heights Rapid Transit car 72 and other PCC cars are sitting inside the Van Aken loop in Shaker Heights. Soon these cars will be called for rush hour service to downtown Cleveland. Today this is the Blue Line of Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
Photograph by Robert Farkas.
For two for Tuesday we’ve asked the wayback machine to take us back to see some Chessie System motive power. In the top image we see Baltimore & Ohio No. 6614 in a Chessie livery and B&O No. 6558 in its original scheme. The train is in Akron on July 2, 1976. In the bottom image B&O No. 4331 is eastbound in Greenwich in the fall of 1986.
Photographs by Robert Farkas