Ohio Trains September-October 1991

Columbus, Marion, Fostoria, Toledo, and more!

[@Blaze06]

I love finding these classic videos! Especially if they have the CSX C40-8Ws! That’s what I mainly watch these for in order to see their clean paint and K5H horns!

[@HenrikSweden1]

Ah thats a nice video. Oh those were the days with neat and graffitifree trains.

[@sarahkraynak4858]

I remember seeing rio grande power in the late 80's early 90's as a kid watching trains in Lowellville ohio on the B&O main. Seeing that SD in this video brought the memories back! I wonder if CSX was borrowing engines from them at the time?

[@joekaplowitz2719]

I was in Y-town during those years. A lot of great trains to see in that whole region!

[@minutemanmac]

Interesting to see that Guilford SD38 that far west

[@judpowell1756]

lol...nobody apparently noticed the SD40 "B" unit at 26:40. Buckeye Steel Castings at 30:56 made six wheel trucks for tenders and heavy duty flatcars. The CSX GP 30's have been modified. The rear radiators are missing.

[@Zach_Bloomquist]

Yeah the CSX GP30s you saw were turned into road slugs. They remove the engine and replace it with ballast to make a shell that only has a cab and traction motors, then it is mated with a GP40-2 or similar GP and used in transfer service.

[@americanrf5925]

9:38 7552 before being involved permanent to pan am railways is that right?

[@danharrison8489]

What an absolute treat! I am from Toledo and my grandfather was a dispatcher for the NYC and PC and sometimes worked at Nasby tower. My father worked for PC, CR, and NS from 1969-2011 and at the time this was filmed was the Dearborn division signal dept. supervisor so was responsible for the pole line you see by the tower. The next year it was gone, replaced with fiber optics. I grew up just down the road from there with the Toledo Terminal track mere feet from my backyard fence so was tickled to see that NS train crossing the CR mainline on the Terminal which only moments before had passed my boyhood home where my mom still lived at the time! I cross over that Byrne Rd. bridge seen in several of the shots many times a week during work. Lastly, just FYI my brother is currently an engineer for the NS out of Mansfield, Ohio. Great video! Loved seeing the Chessie power especially! I was in the Army at Ft. Hood, Texas at this time so wasn't around to see Ohio rail action when this was filmed. Thank you!

[@b3j8]

Dan wish I was about 10 yrs older as I could've seen the old Toledo Div towers during the very late steam era before CTC was cut in during 1957. Neat that you have that family history.

[@rogerrobertson2958]

When I worked for Conrail, I would pick up trains in nasby (289) siding and on my way to Detroit. I would also railfan this spot in the 1990's. Lots of photos of inside the tower, too.

[@jamesrand2233]

you have great videos they are all good !

[@damonhynes]

20:21--ex-Illinois Terminal! 🙂

[@SoldierVids12345]

at 16:40 what would be the name of the horn

[@robrock8568]

Nice Treat to see old Columbus .. The trains through there now kinds suck! not many SD40's at all anymore... The best part of rail-fanning is seeing and hearing SD40s and GP38s and GP40s roaring up the mild grade out of Columbus.. These days with all of the new wide cabs that are so quiet .... rail-fanning becomes kinda boring...

[@victoriacyunczyk]

Nice 'Grey Ghost' GP30. Wouldn't be seen now.

[@kaibrown6204]

Resturcing for the produce to Missouri CRS of twenty three percent under reorganizing to meet demand of frieght

[@corduerorose9747]

This video doesn't look like it's 27 years old way to keep it young

[@neyliscordero451]

trains in ohio by railroad media archive

[@judpowell1756]

Akron before 1980 was a hotbed of activity that rivaled ANY other place in the state

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

woods tower, been there, indianapolis,ind. many years ago. saw early CR there. columbus was the only yard built new by PC. been there many times. NS closed "buckeye" 10 years ago. saw all kinds of great things there, F7s,Alcos,TP&W,GP9Bs,RDG 3640,SR,L&N,even a couple E8s,but the most memorable was a switcher still lettered pennsylvania!(1977).

[@elizabethpate2740]

There was a Union Pacific locomotive in the video.

[@JesseBundrick]

Beautiful yn2s i wish csx could have kept this paint scheme

[@kaiwhite6405]

OSAC RR run roller Dex to make load shippments for Conrail/consolidated international shipping rails RR

[@SOU6900]

Been a very long time since I've seen a locomotive still wearing Chessie colors. Not sure exactly how long it's been, but I remember as a kid CSX had parked one on the siding behind Waukesha Electric on the W&W sub in NC back in the 90s when my dad still worked there as a coil winder.

[@billinindiana1]

Very well done. Thanks.

[@osrr6422]

Seems the early 90s was the last hurrah for variety.

[@danharrison8489]

I did a ton of railfanning from 01-05 and saw a lot of variety still. C&NW, SP, BN, SF, Rio Grande, GT, IC, SOO, and even a Seaboard and Chessie unit in Toledo, Ohio! Now though I would have to agree. Most of the fallen flags have been painted or retired.

[@MrTeabow1958]

Who shot this video please ?

[@delawarecountyrailfan2204]

14:00 is on Seldom Seen Rd in Powell, OH

[@evanj2400]

It’s a shame to see what buckeye yard has become

[@dasheffield5596]

Cool 😎. What year did the railroads install ditch lights on their locomotives ?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Throughout the mid 1990s, but in some cases before. They were mandated on most locomotives in 1997.

[@dasheffield5596]

@@RailroadMediaArchive 👌

[@ejdsndnj]

I saw a video of a CP locomotive with ditch lights in 1988.

[@corduerorose9747]

Csx went from 3 different colors from blue and gray to blue gray and yellow to blue and yellow

[@cpttankerjoe]

So many different companies I never got to see. I’m very glad I found this

[@dmkays]

The camera quality 30 years ago give the video a vintage look.

[@tommythomason6187]

Was the Marion, Ohio depot moved, at one time, from it's original location, to a different spot at the diamonds? I read that a depot (which I can't remember) that sat at a set of diamonds, was relocated several years back.

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

No, it's still in the same spot. AC tower was moved in 1999 across the former Conrail tracks onto station property, though.

[@thebigstink7472]

Is 15:30 seldom seen road in powell Ohio?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

I think so.

[@thebigstink7472]

@@RailroadMediaArchive I remember the old cantilevers from when I was a kid, I’m not 100% though…great vids 👍

[@bobsilleck6797]

The Conrail train you are following at 03:40 - is that along US Route 42 North of Delaware, Ohio?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Yes.

[@bobsilleck6797]

Thanks. Grew up in that area & watched many PCRR trains take the Delaware siding thru town. Great job on a nice video.

[@pmcaloon]

Is the train at 38:55 eastbound from Columbus on the Panhandle?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Yes. I believe that was Fifth Ave. IIRC CSX installed CPLs on some of the spring switch equipped sidings but never activated the signals.

[@osrr6422]

At 19:15. I see C&O signals, GTW train but, an NS locomotive? Where's this?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Fostoria. Columbus Ave. crossing the NS.

[@donmario9233]

Good stuff!

[@patgarcia7713]

What was the third train win con rail

[@ScottHBrown]

Where was the tower at around 26:00 minute at?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Nasby on the west side of Toledo. I believe it is still standing.

[@jamielacourse7578]

What a bloody boring paint scheme. What cigar- chomping suit came up with that?

[@victoriacyunczyk]

Was that Fostoria at 29:00?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

I think that was Columbus (Parsons Yard, the C&O yard. The Conrail train was probably a transfer job).

[@victoriacyunczyk]

Where is it at 19:00?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Fostoria.

[@chevelleguy3]

really nice footage, any idea who shot it?

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Paul Geiger.

[@northernohiorailfanningpro8899]

Awesome action! Where’s that location at 16:39, looks like a nice spot to film

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Fostoria.

[@northernohiorailfanningpro8899]

North or South? Or East or West of Fostoria, because I don’t recognize it

[@evanj2400]

@@northernohiorailfanningpro8899 I tell you one thing CSX 7675 had a badass K5L

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

I'm pretty sure it's an eastbound at Columbus Ave.

[@thebigstink7472]

@@RailroadMediaArchive this is park ave in Delaware Ohio

[@evanj2400]

39:26 where is this at

[@RailroadMediaArchive]

Somewhere on the east side of Columbus on the C&N.

[@evanj2400]

@@RailroadMediaArchive ok

[@Realohiorailroadproductions]

Looks a lot like Cassidy Avenue in Bexley to me. But I could be wrong.