I made a detour on the way to see this guy's steam sister run the Cuyahoga Valley Extra, and OCS1 is all I saw in the hour or so that I was here since CSX had a MOW crew in the interlocking.
A former Southern SD24, after rebuilding to an SD18m- and a stint on the C&NW- now works for the OC in the Youngstown,Ohio area. A GP10 and GP-11 are part of this neat consist.
CSXT 7602 leads it's train eastbound through the Center Street interlocking. The north-south line is Norfolk Southern's.
Ohio Central 6642 is working southbound on the Norfolk Southern track as it crosses CSXT's mainline.
Cab of former Amtrak CF7 586 stored with the rusted hulk of ex SP 9316. For more pics of locos at LTE see my web site at http://gallery121707.fotopic.net/c1121986.html
A string of Ohio Central geeps sit at the site of the former Republic Steel inhouse railroad. Center Street use to be lined with blast furances, today it a sorry brownfield with nothing remaining.
Taking the new alignment through a re-worked Center St., 137 highballs west towards Chicago.
The Ohio & pennsylvania trash train power has tied down at the shops next to the Mahoning Valley power and some stored engines. The CQPA ex FEC unit has been scrapped. Taken with permission.
A colorful ex Reading,BAR,ex Erie Lackawanna set passes some of the steel mill buildings in Youngstown.
Here is a rare view of CSX 9100, the first AC4400CW. The first few AC44's were delivered in 9100 series numbers and then were renumbered in less than two weeks. This is now CSX #1.
Also now an Ohio Central piece of equipment, MVRY, of Union RR heritage, is shut down after having completed its yard work.