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RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-15-2026
Westbound at North Pleasant Drive, East Palestine, Ohio. 1/15/1978
Charlie
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - hillyard999 - 01-15-2026
(01-14-2026, 11:56 AM)Charlie B Wrote:(01-14-2026, 11:15 AM)hillyard999 Wrote: Charlie,
interesting string of power. SW1500, Geep, maybe 2 GP38s?
do you know the owning RRs?
looks like an ex CR, and a GWI unit.
just curious if you have that info.
Those are all G&W units when this was taken. I know the blue one was a Conrail at one time but I don't know the parentage of the others
Here are photos of each unit R&S is Rochester and Southern
Charlie
Charlie,
Thanks for sharing the extra pics of the R&S locos.
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-16-2026
1/16/1977. An eastbound truck train roaring by the East Palestine station at a brisk 10 MPH. The crews were not warm. It was a gruesome winter for railroading.
Charlie
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-17-2026
Moving to more moderate weather in January, 1980. Eastbound at Pleasant Drive, East Palestine, Ohio. The siding in the photo is gone now, it was the last one in town and a victim of the derailment 3 years ago.
Charlie
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-18-2026
Eastbound at West Mayfield, Pa 1/18/2014
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-19-2026
East bound at East Palestine 1/19/1978
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - bdw9535 - 01-19-2026
CSX Q417 on the Delair RR Lift Bridge, Pennsauken, NJ, 1/19/17.
Bruce
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - bdw9535 - 01-20-2026
Conrail's PA-10 at Paulsboro, NJ, 1/20/10.
Bruce
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-20-2026
Waiting for a crew by the West Pittsburgh, Pa P&LE railroad station. 1/20/2010
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-21-2026
1/21/1978. Westbound topping the grade at Summit Cut, MP 37 on the Fort Wayne Line.
Charlie
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-22-2026
1/22/2017, East Palestine, Ohio.
Charlie
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - bdw9535 - 01-22-2026
Southern RR of NJ, Winslow, NJ, 1/22/15.
Bruce
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-23-2026
1/23/1977. Westbound at North Pleasant Drive, East Palestine, Ohio
Charlie
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - BR60103 - 01-23-2026
Charlie: There was a story about East Palestine in the New York Times in (I think) Tuesday. Large spread, about people coping.
RE: Trains This Day/Month in the Past - Charlie B - 01-24-2026
(01-23-2026, 08:36 PM)BR60103 Wrote: Charlie: There was a story about East Palestine in the New York Times in (I think) Tuesday. Large spread, about people coping.
David, I live 1.2 miles from the derailment and have grand kids even closer. The folks in town would like you to think it was another Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. It wasn't. No one was hurt physically and most of the initial fire was from a fuel storage tank located next to the tracks. Several business' in that area were forced to close for the clean up and the explosion/burn was done to prevent a car from blowing on it's own. A couple of these business places closed permanently. NS has done a great job cleaning pollution from a ceramics plant that has been dumping in the creek for over a century in addition to what they spilled. They removed 28 feet of dirt under the track for about 600 feet and millions of gallons of contaminated water. They gave the schools 50 million, the park 25 million and renovated the freight station for over a million for board and baton repair and new shingles and have given it to the city along with $100,000 to remodel the interior for whatever wants to move in, and to settle the class action suit they have 800 million in an account to distribute to folks according to the location around the wreck
Property values have not been adversely affected yet some folks scream they are. My property taxes went up 35% this year.
It was a shame it happened but the media has blown this way out of proportion, in fact they have killed the town by telling people how bad things are when that in fact just isn't so. Frankly it is better for me if the politicians of East Palestine would just move away. A lot of stores have closed because folks won't shop in town. The stores that are open tend to be overpriced on their goods.
The people they interview that are "coping" for the most part are not even home owners. One of the folks that the tv interviewed several times did not live in town, nor was he here when it happened, was the biggest doper around.
Charlie