The 5413 has a pair of mismatched number boards as it leads its train out of Moorman Yard on Norfolk Southern.
Whenever I go to Bellevue I figure that if I get any Wheeling & Lake Erie trains it’s a bonus.
I go to Bellevue to see Norfolk Southern and if the W&LE comes into or leaves town that is value added to my day.
Such was the case during a recent visit in which my W&LE bonus time began in Monroeville when I spotted the railroad’s business car sitting on a siding.
A few more miles down the road revealed a WE train sitting at Yeomans with its locomotives pointed eastward.
I wasn’t there when this train showed up and when I left town about 9 p.m, that night this train was still sitting where I had last seen it.
There would be yet one more W&LE bonus to be had in Bellevue. The job that interchanges with NS in Moorman Yard came out on the Brewster connection with a former Denver & Rio Grande Western SD40T-2 leading.
I doubt that anyone ever tires of seeing the Rio Grande on the Wheeling, particularly when one is leading or if two of them are paired together.
A closer view of the 5413 and its mismatched number boards as it rumbles onto the Brewster connection.
Stripes on the noses of W&LE 4000 and 6997.
A tunnel motor and a corn field.
Near Ohio Route 4 and sitting beside the trail built on the former New York Central right of way.
