August 24, 1977. I was photographing the local into Lisbon, Ohio and was invited for a cab ride. The flagman drove my car into town so I reluctantly
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I took these last two after we got into town. The railroad was abandoned shortly after and a trail is all that is left.[
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Coming through the crossover at Buckeye block station in 1977. Buckeye was a manual block station wit trailing switches. It was manned when trackwork had the track between New Galilee and East Palestine, or East Palestine and Columbiana.[
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A mixed consist heads this westbound trailer train through East Palestine 37 years ago.[
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A set of F7's head west through the cut at Franklin Square. 8/27/1977
This is the cut just west of Leetonia where PC had a 3 train wreck 2 years before this picture.[
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What a difference a year makes---the yard at Stuart St. looked much different on 27/08/2013
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Here's the same location taken last week
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Borrowed power used as helpers. Running west light to catch another eastbound. 8/28/1977[
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8/30/1977. Twilight and a trailer train heads east toward Pittsburgh. 50 miles to go. It will probably be recrewed at Conway.[
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Still from 1977, west bound with an ex Erie Lackawanna on the point.[
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A mixed freight heading west through the Market Street crossing at East Palestine 9/1/1977[
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Westbound just west of town.(East Palestine) I didn't see RS3"s often so I was glad for this one.[
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A pair of Norfolk Southern locos depart from the northern end of Millville Yard while Winchester and Western works the southern end of the yard September 3, 2013.
At the B&W plant in Koppel, Pa. 9/3/77. The plant has changed hands and is just a portion of what it used to be but it is still operating. [
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WPCA-51 at Winslow, NJ
Bruce