A Frigid Day Around Ravenna, OH: 2-26-11

On Saturday, February 26, 2011, Rich, John Puda and I spent a cold, snow-covered day trackside based around Ravenna, also shooting trains in Rootstown and Northfield. Also included at the end of the video is a selection of photos of one of the remaining 16 Conrail blue SD50's in existence (as of 3/3/11), taken after school on the first day of March and accompanied by horn audio of CSXT 7766 on Q299 in Akron. Enjoy!

ROOTSTOWN

Train 1: 261
NS C40-8W 8368
NS C40-9W 9474
NS C40-9W 9131
NS C40-9W 9857

Train 2: 21G
NS SD60M 6765
NS C40-9W 9755

RAVENNA

Trains 3 and 4:
24M
NS SD70M-2 2764
NS ES40DC 7505

M5K
NS SD70M 2614
NS C40-8 8747

Train 5: 21Q
NS C40-9W 9387
NS SD60M 6787

Train 6: Q375
CSXT ES44AC 829
CSXT AC4400CW 514
CSXT SD70MAC 4538

Trains 7 and 8:
16E, Engineer Jeff Pusateri
NS C40-9W 9192
NS SD60-2 6710

11K, Engineer Dave Mangold
NS SD70M 2599
UP SD70M 4595
NS C40-9 8877

Train 9: Q136
CSXT ES40DC 5231
CSXT ES40DC 5243

Trains 10 and 11:
S226
CSXT C40-8W 7651
CSXT SD50-2 8550

Q395
CSXT C40-8W 7391
CSXT C40-8W 7364
CSXT AC4400CW 496
CSXT ES40DC 5353

NORTHFIELD

Train 12: 25Z
NS C40-9W 8510
NS C40-9W 9620

PHOTOS

NS 5430 (Ex-CR 6753) sitting by the old PC yard office for Maple Yard, which used to be located where the Maple Heights Intermodal Terminal is now.

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[Fussel2013]

Hey,nice video.I like that clip with the Sd70m-2 in Ravenna.I like it when the fast trains kick up the snow.

[ConrailForever]

Thanks!

[FGLK1751]

Nice Job Cody! Is 5430 have a blue patched? Becasue for a minute there, I thought it was a non-patched locomotive. I have to look at it a couple times. Nice Job!

[ConrailForever]

The original road number, 6753, was painted over and patched with the road number 5430. The only Conrail units that were left unpatched were the SD70 narrow cabs, since they were already in the number series that NS wanted them in.

[irishmanO1]

awesome video nice job

[ConrailForever]

Thanks, Patrick!

[CuteCatFaith]

Outstanding! Greetings from France. I am from Ohio and knew Ravenna at one point. Well. I had to leave the area in the '70s when a paycheck bounced, and moved to NY for a servant's job and more rail fun! I took the Orient-Express! My French spouse adored a first class Amtrak ride from NYC to Cleveland but found Ohio just too horrible for words so we left a day early.

[ConrailForever]

Thanks, Greg!

[GregInCalifornia]

Awesome video!

[ConrailForever]

No, it isn't owned or leased by NS. The only UP engines on lease to NS is a number of C40-8 narrow cabs. The UP SD70M is just run-through power, much like you see any other UP, BNSF, CN, CP or whatever engines on other CSX/NS trains.