Trains on this day in the past:

[Charlie B]

January 26, 1978, This was one of the coldest days I can remember yet the folks at Amtrak gave it a darned good try. I took this picture of a late #41 running west through East Palestine      . Four hours or so it was being towed back to Pittsburgh. I think the train made it as far west as Canton Ohio before it was annulled. The first photo is the Conrail rescue units, the second the now tail end crossing the Market Street Crossing. Now the management of Amtrak has annulled trains when there was only a small amount of snow predicted instead of what we got on these days in 1978. There were drifts over 15 feet tall in places and it was the only time I ever saw a snow plow on the rail through here.         
Charlie