Nostalgia & History > A few misc images

Sept 74
(1) This Burlington baggage car was in Denver.
Thanks to TO members dan and BigSkyBlue, they identified the car as a CB&Q Havelock home built baggage.

Nov 74
(2-3) Along the UP I believe near Greely,Co were these stock cars.

Dec 75
(4) Looking east on the Erie Lackawanna (Erie) in Mansfield,Oh.
I was hoping the RS3 unit would get a bit closer but it didn't.
That is the ex-PRR Chicago line at the bottom with Union Station just behind me and one of the three towers in town out of sight to the right.
The factory in the background may be the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co. ?
Part of the Ohio Brass Co. on the left.
So much of this is gone today.

Gary

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Your last photo really captured what was once industrial Mansfield.
Bob

WRT pic #4, yes, the Mansfield Tire & Rubber plant in the background and Ohio Brass to the left.  Here's a link to a 1940 aerial view of the area looking roughly compass NNE.  The PRR runs diagonally from upper left to lower right, the Erie curves through the right side of the image from top to bottom, and the B&O runs from top to bottom on the left side of the image.  Two of the three interlocking towers are visible, as is the PRR/Erie Union Station, and a PRR local passenger train.
https://richlandcountyhistory.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/64w_ob-1940.jpg

Mansfield was a regular haunt for me in the mid 1970s.  This pic was taken from roughly the same angle as yours during the summer of 1976, just before Conrail stopped operating the EL as a through route.  I believe the Mansfield Tire & Rubber plant was demolished in 1982 and Ohio Brass in about 1990.  I was back there in 2007 and had trouble orienting myself with the EL and all the factories gone.

mike woodruff
spokane wa



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/23 13:09 by swaool.

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swaool Wrote:
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> WRT pic #3, yes, the Mansfield Tire & Rubber plant
> in the background and Ohio Brass to the left. 

> mike woodruff
> spokane wa

Great EL image !
That's what I was hoping for that day.
I was getting shots of the station and towers but no EL trains came by.
Excellent 1940 ariel view.
That brings back plenty of memories for me when most of those factories and businesses were open.
My grandparents lived here so I visited (sometimes by the Erie) many a time in the 50's and 60's - even went to the station on occasion when I could talk my dad in to it.

> I was back there in 2007 and had
> trouble orienting myself with the EL and all the
> factories gone.
>

You got that right.
I was there a few years ago and it took me a few minutes to locate where the station and Erie mains used to be.

Thanks
Gary

swaool Wrote:
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> WRT pic #4, yes, the Mansfield Tire & Rubber plant
> in the background and Ohio Brass to the left. 
> Here's a link to a 1940 aerial view of the area
> looking roughly compass NNE.  The PRR runs
> diagonally from upper left to lower right, the
> Erie curves through the right side of the image
> from top to bottom, and the B&O runs from top to
> bottom on the left side of the image.  Two of the
> three interlocking towers are visible, as is the
> PRR/Erie Union Station, and a PRR local passenger
> train.
> https://richlandcountyhistory.files.wordpress.com/
> 2020/10/64w_ob-1940.jpg
>
> Mansfield was a regular haunt for me in the mid
> 1970s.  This pic was taken from roughly the same
> angle as yours during the summer of 1976, just
> before Conrail stopped operating the EL as a
> through route.  I believe the Mansfield Tire &
> Rubber plant was demolished in 1982 and Ohio Brass
> in about 1990.  I was back there in 2007 and had
> trouble orienting myself with the EL and all the
> factories gone.
>
> mike woodruff
> spokane wa

Which direction 3625?

BCHellman Wrote:

> Which direction 3625?

Westbound.

msw
spokane