Riding CN’s ‘Scotian’ from Halifax to Montreal back in July 1972….I was surprised to see two C&O Business Cars on the wye at Oxford Jct., Nova Scotia ready to be picked-up by our train. (The C&O Chairman at the time was Cyrus Eaton……originally from Nova Scotia and often returned to his home here.)
Early the next morning the ‘Scotian’ stopped for servicing at Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec and I went back for photos.
The ‘Scotian’ was the running mate of the ‘Ocean Limited’ and operated about 6 hrs later. Here it is at Levis (3rd photo) across the St. Lawrence from Quebec City later that morning.
In the early days of the C&O/B&O association - Cyrus Eaton owned at farm in Northfield, OH as the C&O’s corporate offices were in the Terminal Tower in Cleveland. In the summer of 1962 or 1963 he hosted a party at his farm for all the B&O and C&O employees in the NE Ohio area. I took a number of pictures at the event, however, they are not posted on 3rd party servers to be able to be displayed here - and they are of people, not anything railroad significant.
Thank you ghCBNS for sharing your photos, they look like new photos taken yesterday!
Looking at one of the pics posted by Becky makes me wonder what was the first coach or sleeper built using window rubber seal and what kind of material was used for weatherstripping to ensure a quiet and comfortable ride under bad but not severe weather conditions. I don’t believe that watering leaking was tolerated by Pullman and any railroad.
The bed or the lower berth was right next to the window of a sleeper, if there was water leaking and no unoccupied berth or room available, that could be a frustrating situation for the passenger and the Pullman porter as well…
The roundhouse, not surprisingly, is right along side an active CSX yard. In this pic the diesel waiting on the line at left belongs to MRPS and they use it for very short excursions out and back at open houses.
So I assume they just aquired it as-is and in-place when CSX stopped using it.
One of the first trips I made was a five-week adventure from coast-to-coast covering Dayton, Ohio to Montreal, then across Canada to Vancouver, back again to Chicago only to continue to Newport News, on C&O territory, back to Cincinnati and Dayton Whew!
Secondly, the West 3rd. St. roundhouse photos remind me of the days I spent there in the mid 1970s while the B&O was still using the roundhouse. Back then the old wood-timber coal dock was where locomotives were sanded. The modern steel tower was probably added around 1980 or so.
I would spend the entire weekend there and camp out in one of those cabooses. In one of PennyTrain’s photos you can just see the top of Bridge 460 in the background which wasn’t cut off by a highway bridge in the early 1970s photo.
One day in August, 1972, I watched the unveiling of the new Chessie System paint scheme. Glad I had some 8mm film with me [:)]
One of the first trips I made was a five-week adventure from coast-to-coast covering Dayton, Ohio to Montreal, then across Canada to Vancouver, back again to Chicago only to continue to Newport News, on C&O territory, back to Cincinnati and Dayton Whew!
Secondly, the West 3rd. St. roundhouse photos remind me of the days I spent there in the mid 1970s while the B&O was still using the roundhouse. Back then the old wood-timber coal dock was where locomotives were sanded. The modern steel tower was probably added around 1980 or so.
As I recall Dispatcher WCG was Walter C. Gruder. The Dispatchers Office in Akron consisted of three desks. The Akron Main Line desk had UN Tower at New Castle to Willard. The ‘Chicago’ desk had from the J Tower at the West end of Willard to Pine Jct. at Gary, IN - It was current of traffic signalling from J Tower to Sh
I live only a mile or so from the Lake Branch near Chardon, Oh. Here is a photo of the last pair of Geeps in Chardon, that were assigned to the rail-ripping train back in Summer of 1983, thereabouts:
