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Re: (erielack) C-628 Recollection(2)
- Subject: Re: (erielack) C-628 Recollection(2)
- From: RBehre8599_@_aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:50:11 EST
Going to school at Kent, OH from '76-'81, I spent much time at the Kent, OH
yard office (Kent was still a crew change point into Conrail) as the EL main
was still seeing through trains to Akron, then down the ex-PRR Akron Branch
to Orrville, then on the ex-PRR mainline west through Crestline, Lima and
beyond to Chicago. This lasted until about late '79/early '80 when all
mainline trains were relegated entirely to the ex-PRR main (now the Fort
Wayne Line).
Most series of Alcos seem to migrate to Ohio (probably due to the
less-stringent air quality standards in place there vs. the eastern states,
plus Collinwood shops in Cleveland was a major servicing point for the Alco's
), and one combination that often ran were the e/b loaded coal trains (which
returned w/b as empties) interchanged w/the N&W at Creston - for a time in
late '76/early'77, they usually ran with 4 big Alco's (1 ea. from the RDG &
PC, plus 2 LV C628's (1 red + 1 snowbird)) was quite a show departing out of
Kent yard after the new crew was on...
Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384
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