Took a rather roundabout trip to Cleveland this past Friday; as one friend summed it up "three hundred miles to go nowhere."



Eastbound 146 rolls up to the State Route 4 overpass while an SD40-2 is turned on the wye. In the distance Canadian National and Wheeling & Lake Erie power from transfer runs lays over.




Power off the inbound 10E rolls to the service area for attention. Foreign power is common in Ohio on run-through trains operated through Chicago and other Illinois gateways.




Even on a Friday afternoon the Flats Industrial Railroad in Cleveland was devoid of activity. The Flats is a mostly industrial neighborhood where the Cuyahoga River meets Lake Erie west of downtown. In the early 1990s an attempt was made to turn the abandoned warehouses into loft apartments and night clubs but 20 years later crime has run many establishments out. Today a small number of commercial businesses still operate in The Flats mixed with the remaining industrial operations and, of course, railroads.




The view off the closed Rockefeller Avenue bridge included NS 145 on former Nickel Plate rails. The heavy catenary directly behind the train are on the abandoned approaches to Cleveland Union Terminal and behind that are wires for the active Cleveland RTA heavy and light rail lines east of downtown.




Down in Willard on CSX, two new BNSF GEs are headed west on Q393 at the Section Line Road overpass. A former Conrail unit is in the lead.




The day was capped off at Attica Junction where we found this Q137 highballing west with freshly painted C40-8 on the point.


More photos of the day's exploits are available on flickr.

Nice photos, thanks for sharing!