It may look like a Conrail unit, but No. SD40-2 No. 3404 is now working for Norfolk Southern. It is leading a westbound making the transition from the Fort Wayne Line to the Cleveland Line in Alliance on Nov. 12, 2010. The unit was built in November 1978
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Conrail SD40-2 No. 6400 is eastbound in North Lawrence, Ohio, on March 26, 1985, on the Fort Wayne Line. It is located between Massillon and Orrville. No. 6400 was built in August 1977 and would later service CSX. The train has a load of covered hopper cars.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
This CSX SD40-2 leading an auto rack train through Berea won’t win any beauty contests but in its own way it has a certain visual appeal. And that is despite the rust, mismatched number boards, faded paint, and generally battered appearance.
The 8068 was built for the Louisville & Nashville in October 1979 and later served the Seaboard System motive power fleet. It appears to have an earlier CSX livery iteration that is well worn and weathered.
Today such sights would be rare on CSX for the carrier doesn’t have that many standard cab locomotives left in road train service.
The image was made on April 29, 2000, and was scanned from color negative film.
Article and Photograph by Craig Sanders
Today’s two for Tuesday features a pair of Wheeling & Lake Erie trains in Spencer from April 12, 2014. Both units worked for EMD leasing before winding up on the Wheeling where they ran around for years in their blue and white EMD livery. Both locomotives are SD40-2 models. The 6314 is still on the Wheeling motive power roster and still wearing the livery seen above. The 6382 is off the Wheeling’s roster.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Here are a pair of Conrail images from the archives for two for Tuesday. In the top image GP38-2 No. 8126 is in Alliance on Aug. 15, 1984. In the bottom image SD40-2 No. 6479 leads a westbound at Center Road in what is now New Franklin on May 3, 1980. In a few minutes this train will be in Clinton and likely head toward Orrville and beyond.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Warwick-Bound Conrail SD40-2 No. 6479 and U30B No. 2849 are crossing Snyder Avenue in Barberton on May 3, 1980. At Warwick they could go to Massillon or, more likely, on to Orrville and beyond on Conrail.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Here are three images made in Northeast Ohio on July 10, 2022. Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2 No. 7002 is shown in the top image in Copley. Because I did not want to move the cone, this is the best angle I could get. The middle image is a nose shot of the 7002. In the bottom image, CSX AC44CW No. 412 leads a westbound auto rack train in Barberton.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
The wayback machine has taken us to the Conrail era in early 1988. SD40-2 No. 6412 is leading an eastbound in Massillon in early 1988. The unit was built in September 1977 and would later work for Norfolk Southern. It is shown on the Fort Wayne Line.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
BNSF SD40-2 No. 6799 is leading an eastbound CSX train on May 8, 2004. This was an early BNSF locomotive livery.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
R.J. Corman GP 20E No. 4119 rolls a train southbound after interchanging cars with CSX in Warwick Yard on Oct. 6, 2021. A few days later Corman SD40-2 No. 7107 leads a northbound awaiting permission to enter the yard.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
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