RE: (erielack) C-628 Recollection(2)

["Gripp, William [NCSUS]" <WGRIPP_@_NCSUS.JNJ.COM>]

After fooling around with sending any power anywhere, ConRail seemed to
concentrate its road Alcos running ore trains from Mingo Jct.  I saw lots of
big Alc's at Collinwood the winter of '78 when I spent a couple of days in
Cleveland between blizzards.



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Subject: Re: (erielack) C-628 Recollection(2)



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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