Greetings! ClevelandRails welcomes its newest member, Don Whipkey, who can provide a unique perspective on one of the most interesting railroading operations...
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Steelworker for 28 yrs at Mittal Steel USA, Cleveland. I operate a remote control loco at the hot metal dumping station at the former Republic Steel, LTV East...
Hi Railfans This morning D 750 Left Willard with the waybill swithcher Southern Pacific 2638 now LTEX and will be set off at Warwick for the local out of New...
Hi Railfans This morning thru Willard like a speeding bullett Q 380 with CSX 8811 leading had three relics on flatcars towards the end of the train at 10AM The...
Welcome aboard Don! Are you allowed to take any pixs in there without getting into trouble? Happy 2006! CS ... From: "Don Whipkey" <dwhipkey@...> To:...
GREETINGS & HAPPY NEW YEAR! Two trains of interest seen at Willard, Ohio this morning: (nope, CSX did not take today off) D750 - CSX YN3 # 2557, ex CR 4426,...
Hi Camcorder. Happy New Year back to you too! Those Baldwin switchers are possibly destined to SMS Rail Services in Bridgewater, NJ SMS Rail has a really...
Hi Dave. That's what I kinda thought. As I looked at my DVD footage from what I shot, I noticed they were NOT on trucks. They were chained straight down on the...
Can anyone verify the former Patriot Mining Co. unit 51, nee West Virginia Northern 51, now JDNX 50, is still working at the scrap yard along the NS Randall...
Mark, I must have missed the post that spotted this engine in Cleveland. It was originally spotted in a post by Mr. Boylan headed from Willard to M&G Polymers...
From: "jay_bronc" ... I thought I referenced it in a post but if not, it wasn't the first, and won't be the last, thing I forgot to do! On July 2nd 2005 the...
This should be good. I've been there before just never looked over the fence. The last time I was around that area taking photos of a scrap train operations...
Jay, ... We were at Ferrous on a Saturday and they were working in the yard but not using the loco. After we were there a while, an employee did watch us from...
Just in case you haven't seen it, the Classic Trains special edition #4 - Diesel Victory contains a very interesting article about EMD Plant 3 that was located...
From: "Mike Fitzpatrick" ... The last I knew, most, if not all of it, still exists. After EMD ceased production there, GM's Euclid/Terex Division used the...
Mark, I'm drawing a blank (now there's a shock) for the location on Aetna you describe, I just can not place the location of Ferrous. Sounds like an excuse to...
Tom, If you are interested in going over to Ferrous and would like some company (highly recommended) drop me an email and we could meet somewhere. I was over...
Everybody, Aetna metals was robbed Thursday, hence the cops Jay saw yesterday. Robbers were packing an Uzi and shot one of the employees of Aetna metals. Story...
Unbelievable! PD story is at the following links. For the cut and paste kind of peoples: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/11 ...
Kevin Scanlon, a commercial photographer who likes pointing his camera at trains, maintains a web page on which he posts one photograph and an accompanying...
i agree, good photo. ... -- Gregg Staley "Giffing Reality Everyday" The Sandusky Bay Carshop Corporation The Net's Largest Collection of Emergency and...
GREETINGS! It never hurts to plan ahead..... 2006 NRHS Convention to be held in New Philadelphia, Ohio from 7/17 thru 7/23 - Monday thru Sunday. I have read...
... Official convention web site is here: http://www.buckeyerails2006.org/ I just heard from one of my Michigan contacts that the 1225 is supposed to be idle...
OK. I would be very surprised if the 1225 would leave the state anyway due to insurance costs. I "played" with her once in Michigan when she did an excursion...
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