Nostalgia & History > One Of My Very Few - B&O 4648

For some reason I have very few action photos of B&O F-units on the point. Here is a favorite.
B&O 4648 is westbound in Akron, Ohio in February 1973. I am standing just northeast of Waterloo Road looking back towards what is now CSX LAMBERT. The two tracks on the left are the EL mainline. The next two tracks are the B&O mainline. The line on the right that cuts over to the eastbound B&O mainline is a PC branch that goes on to Warwick, Ohio. Today only a single CSX track through here is the CSX mainline from CSX LAMBERT to CSX WARWICK. The others are all gone.
Bob



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/18 15:56 by refarkas.

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What a great shot!
Gary

Bob Great shot.  Do you recall what those yellow cars were deep in the train?

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I tried to post an enlargement, but my photo attatcher is broken. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/18 19:17 by Larry020.

I'm sorry but I don't recall what those yellow cars were.
Bob

Larry020 Wrote:
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> Bob Great shot.  Do you recall what those yellow
> cars were deep in the train?=13ptʎɹɹɐ˥

TTX flats? They were painted yellow starting in 1970.

Bob, Thanks for sharing! That is a shot.
 

Great 3/4 F Unit action photo.
Also, like that smoking GP.
ALLEN 

Very nice photo of the good-ole-days with the B&O, especially seeing the F units still earning their keep,
John in White Marsh, Maryland

Wow!   Great shot!   I was at that crossing a few years ago and wondered what it looked like when the EL was there...  Would have never guessed it was 5 tracks there (thought just 3 or 4).

Anyway, given the train location and the date, I would bet that all of those head end cars - Santa Fe covered hoppers and Trailer Train flats - were fresh from Pullman Standard in Butler, PA and making their first trips west...

Something old (B&O F), something new (the new freight cars), something borrowed (either the C&O geep or the borrowed time both units are on) and something blue (the sky and both units)...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/24/18 10:26 by CSX602.

Ahh I be that sounded great!