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Former P&WV/NKP/NW/WE West Belt Branch, came off at West Belt Jct near milepost 52, went down to the river and connected to the P&LE and was abandoned in the mid-1990’s after the CSX takeover due to interchange traffic being completely shifted to Connellsville.

Like it or not, graffiti is as much a part of railroad culture as hobos and bib overalls. Monikers have been being scrawled on cabooses and freight cars for over 100 years now. The spray can thing really took off in the 90’s and with rolling stock being extremely bland these days it’s a welcome sigh...

Mansfield to Crestline is being single tracked as well as Lucas to Loudonville. Rail is now being removed between those two points.

Let's take Lance Fritz as an example, and COMPLETELY shove aside the steam program and everything cool he's done for the public/railfans. I personally think he's the only person qualified to run a railroad in the United States right now, given his experience with the industry. Union Pacific was not...

I hate talking politics... As a general reply to your post, I'm not so sure the old conventional wisdom stands quite like it used to. While the public sector unions such as the teacher's unions have continued their extremely close relationship with the Democrats, the private sector unions are movin...

DaveO wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:25 pm

Lots of the railroad cars today say "Do Not Hump" and must be flat switched if they need to be switched at all.
That's why.

No one listens or cares about that anyways anymore, those cars get humped too.

Interesting that it has been stated in this thread that it’s unfortunate a railroad strike is not likely. Why? How does a strike help inflation? It doesn't, my opinion as well as a lot of others, is that railroad workers have been continuously being screwed over for the better part of two decades w...

The IORY is a union property, not sure about the CCET though it's likely not. The strike would only directly affect the carriers governed under the national agreement but would have a drastic impact as far as shortlines not receiving cars from interchange among other things. That said, a strike is u...

redside20 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:40 pm

As for the WLE Carey Sub traffic has picked up a bit as an NGL propane transfer facility located online near Sycamore last year.

They get about 2-5 cars a day and the traffic is handled by existing trains.

Anti Social Railfan wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:54 am

Wow! Okay, thanks.

What could one expect to catch in Spencer Oh?

Mid-week days are generally busier, Spencer normally sees a 222, 221, 661, 662, 711, 712, 732, 735, 238, 237 daily plus any extras.

Thank You very much. Yes, Greenwich Oh is definitely on my to railfan list, a priority even . I've heard one can catch a couple W&LE trains if they're lucky running. That would be the Carey Sub, if I'm not mistaken which I could be. The Hartland sub goes through Wellington. I caught a W&LE manifest...

About 4-6 on the W&LE a day east of Brewster, 2 on the OHCR.

The line south of Uhrichsville was abandoned in 1992 I believe?

PW 2216 is indeed still on the OC and is working the ECL in Columbus right now.

Scrap yards have a tendency to tamp the scrap into the gondola to be able to load more into them which causes dirt and scrap to become lodged in the holes in the floor, gondolas full of water are far more common than people think.

OHCR 4023 is now on the I&O as well and P&W 2216 was recently added on the property as an additional B23-7R. I believe the two NS GP38-2's the Ohi-Rail had are still the power on the MVRY, and I'm not sure if they still own it but I think the OHCR 7499 is still sitting at the landfill in New Lexing...

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:27 pm

Can’t dispatchers already send bulletins to trains via PTC?

Yes

OHCR 4023 is now on the I&O as well and P&W 2216 was recently added on the property as an additional B23-7R. I believe the two NS GP38-2's the Ohi-Rail had are still the power on the MVRY, and I'm not sure if they still own it but I think the OHCR 7499 is still sitting at the landfill in New Lexingt...

I suspect this will mean the end for a substantial portion of the locomotives on the railroad. #47 has bounced around since it left the Detroit and Toledo Shoreline where it began its career, but has never ventured outside of the Michigan, Indiana, Ohio area under ownership. The only time it may ha...

Couple of videos I made with my iPhone and iMovie today while on my very rare day off from playing trains... enjoy if you want, if not, meh.


Part 1
https://youtu.be/Vh2UyLkENQc

Part 2
https://youtu.be/ezHAayKINp4

H919 is the H719 recrewed.