Erie Lackawanna Youngstown to Lima, Ohio

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing. Youngstown, Warren, and Leavittsburg are just FAN-tastic! As a kid in the early 60s, we left the Warren Station and rode the train to Cleveland and back after watching the Indians play.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Do you know what year the tracks were realigned that eliminated the street running?

[@elsdp-4560]

@@RailroadMediaArchive I think it was around 1965 and finished in 66.

[@lequory]

​@elsdp-4560 where was this former street running at? Also what were the other set of tracks?

[@elsdp-4560]

@@lequory They didn't move South Street they relocated the gauntlet tracks to the double main just behind the fire dept. The other track was the B&O that ran from Newton Falls to Niles. Of course, all of this is gone but it can still be seen on Google Earth.

[@georgewhitacre8276]

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the old South St street running! What a mess South St was in those days.I also remember riding the train from Warren station to Youngstown Erie station and walking to the B&O station to catch a train to Cumberland! Those were the days.

[@1940limited]

Love that ALCO PA crossing the diamond light. Lots of neat passenger equipment here and freight cars with road names and no graffiti.

[@RailpaxScott]

Footage that I have wanted to see!!! I grew up seeing the last of the Erie through Warren. I visited DeForest tower one day late in the 70s. Rare footage of that tower, thank you!!!!

[@kelvintorrence5994]

my mothers home town youngstown when steel was king,and my favorite railroad the big e

[@budlinton3313]

Oh the memories!! Born and raised a half block from the Lima depot on south Elizabeth St. I seen many traind come through. We were at the junction of the Erie (Lackawanna) B&O, and N&W railroads. I remember a Sunday morning in May of "67 a derailment between the depot station and the N&W roundhouse destoying the roundhouse. I still have photos of it. Also the grain elevator burning down.

[@davenitsch6094]

Wonderful vintage footage! I would have loved seeing this all, when I was at Marion last May!

[@frankbarnes5032]

I grew up in Youngstown watching the Erie Lackawanna running the hot metal trains running from Republic Steel in Youngstown to the Warren plant.

[@simonetaormina7080]

This is the first video I have seen with the interchange is used , very kool

[@petertaviano9593]

OMG! What great memories! As I posted on one of your other EL videos I grew up a few hundred yards west of the DT&I interlocking on the south side of the tracks. There was an empty lot between us and the EL tracks. This was the area where there were sidings on both sides of the EL mainline. It was frustrating when they parked cars on the south side and I could not see the trains go by. I cannot tell you how much seeing this has brought back so many great memories, thank you!

[@budlinton3313]

I grew up down on south Elizabeth at the junction of the B&O and N&W rrs.Lots of memories.

[@hartmutlorentzen9659]

Superb video, thanks for presentation…, from Germany

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Thank you greatly for this footage..

[@b3j8]

I'm curious when this was shot. The semaphores at Marion had already been changed out for color lites which was done in the late 1960's, but radio had not been installed at SJ tower in Lima which I thought was done in the 1950's.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

This wasn't taken all at the same time. It was reels taken anywhere between the mid 50s and mid 70s spliced together in a 400' reel.

[@b3j8]

@@RailroadMediaArchive Ah, that answers that. Thanks.

[@MrThecroatian]

I loved the train order grab scenes.

[@paulw.woodring7304]

The significantly longer passenger train at 21:45. Could that have been an excursion train or extra excursion cars added to "The Lake Cities"?

[@RetiredEE]

Excellent!

[@davidsharp3110]

Again, you present a great video of the Erie and Erie Lackawanna. I hope in your collection you may have some video of the Cleveland line through North Randall and the Lee Road/Miles Road Station and then downtown into the flats. Thanks!

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

I do not.

[@johnalder6028]

Any footage of Greenville Pa. Erie activity available? What Erie passenger trains serviced Greenville pa. and Suffern NY. ? Great viewing you posted, thanks!

[@jonnyspeed]

Thanks for posting! I grew up along the tracks on the SW side of Warren. I spent many days in the 70s and 80s watching trains cross Austin Ave. Unfortunately, that area seems to have been cut out of the first sequence... it goes from the station at S. Main to Leavittsburg. Still, great to see. Do you have footage of the Lisbon branch? I'm thinking of modeling that. Thank you.

[@spaceflight1019]

The Marion Tallgrass Trail now occupies the right of way from just west of the Marion yard towards Lima. Use the satellite feature and follow the right of way all the way to Chicago. I just did and the tracks and a yard exist in Kenton but the bridge over the Scioto River isn't there. I started a yearly service call to Lima in 1987 and east of town there was a crossing on highway 117. The rails looked unused and there was a semaphore style signal. One year I stopped, and the semaphore was made by Union Switch and Signal. One year the semaphore was gone, the next the tracks were gone.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

CSX uses a short portion of the Erie to access the former Big 4 on the south side of town. IIRC, there's still a concrete milepost on the former Erie.

[@ket0_t0ne39]

DT & I's Conductor used to ride in the trailing unit...was HIS OFFICE...

[@drewhuff3457]

Enjoyed the film. Nice to see the old train depots, tower and semaphores. Is the Marion or Alger depots still there?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

The Marion depot today is a combination museum, meeting space, model railroad club.

[@mshum538]

Great footage and thank you, do you have any Akron footage from Kent to Barberton ?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

There's some Akron and Kent footage in my other EL clips.

[@ket0_t0ne39]

Rail speeder was almost like the one my Grandpa Lew was killed in, down at Morgan Tower, Quincy, OH...

[@lowellvillerailfanproductions]

Do you got any old videos of train in Lowellville? My hometown?

[@bnsfbandit9807]

As a young avid railfan local to Lima it absolutely pains me to see how huge Lima was in the rail industry. I would give almost anything to spend a day at SJ and around Lima in the 70s

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Last of the few years before Youngstown would end up turning into what looks like a war zone today so much of it

[@Enjoyer.762]

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