CNRY #55, still dressed for the holidays, sits stoic and silent in Lebanon yard. Drained for the winter, the locomotive eagerly awaits another tourist season.
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you and your family has a great holiday season. Normal posting should resume in a couple of days.
-Kyle
It’s good to be back on America’s shores, and to celebrate my recent trip to Panama the return of regular posts, this week’s photo is a panoramic I took at the Pacific Intermodal Terminal of the Panama Canal Railway Company. This terminal, located in Panama City just east of the Canal, is at the south end of the PCRC’s racetrack and approximately 50 miles away from the terminals on the Atlantic side. Click the photo to see it full sized.
When I took this photo last Thursday (the 16th), operations had been shutdown due to low volume. It was a rare moment when all the cranes, trains, and equipment were silent. Many of the containers seen here will be transported by the PCRC and eventually make their way to Ohio and the Columbus area via the Heartland Corridor. We will be taking a more in-depth look at both the history of the railway as well as and current rail and container operations in Panama over the next few weeks.
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A couple weeks ago I published a short look back at the Ohio State spur off the old Hocking Valley. I’ve since located a couple of photos via the University Archive’s Facebook page and I thought I would share them as this week’s Photo of the Week.
The shot above was taken in 1911. It shows the temporary track that was extended across the Oval for use in the construction of the main library. Construction tracks were also used in the building of Ohio Stadium, as show in these two overhead shots.
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It’s been a while since I have done a book review. Luckily, I managed to pick up a copy of Edward H. Miller’s The Hocking Valley Railway
The Hocking Valley Railway began its corporate history as the Mineral Railroad Company in 1864. Chartered to carry coal from the Hocking River Valley to the markets of Columbus, the railroad soon underwent a name change and became the Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad. After a number of mergers, buyouts, and receiverships, the railroad became the Hocking Valley Railway in 1899. It is under this name the railroad was most well known. The Hocking Valley became a fallen flag after being purchased by the C&O in 1930.
Miller goes through detailed histories of each predecessor railroad, its lines, and its relationship to the Hocking Valley. He also includes short biographies of each railway president, something I have not seen too often in these kind of works. In-between the larger themes of the narrative (ownership, presidents, and corporate games), he finds time to work in significant but smaller events from the time period discussed like wrecks, expansions, and the occasional disaster.
Conrail Blue still lives on today in Ohio! For this week’s photo we are returning to the largest contributor to our Flickr pool, Todd Dillion aka Fan T. He took this shot a few months ago of Norfolk Southern’s ex-Conrail GP-38-2 near Youngstown, OH. On the right side of the frame you can also see one of my favorite types of locomotive, the hi-hood Geep (GP-50 #7007 to be precise, according to Fan-T).
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