When I was in Kent, OH from '76 - '82, there was never (to my knowledge) active interchange between Chessie and Conrail at Kent. The interchange track was there, and there was a signal there which crews called out as 'Erie switch' when Chessie began the practice of having crews call out signal indications as they passed, but if there was interchange in Kent, it was back in early-EL (if not earlier) days - I remember hiking through the old yard and old shop complex one day to find the track, and the rust buildup on the rails indicated it hadn't been used for some years... In Ravenna, there was no connection between the B&O/Chessie tracks and the Erie/EL/Conrail tracks. There was a connecting track from w/b B&O to go n/b on the PRR/CR C&P track at PRR's RAVE Tower, and there was a connection off the PRR to Erie/EL (not an active interchange track when I was there, but had been stub ended to serve local businesses, and abandoned in the late '70's/early '80's), but not from the B&O/Chessie... The Erie/EL/CR ran on the north side of the Ravenna Army Depot, with the B& O/Chessie running on the south side along Rt. 5, and maybe a connection could be made there, but there was no active interchange between the 2 through the Depot... Rich Behrendt ELHS #384 ------------------------------
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