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EL 3643
Title:  EL 3643
Description:  An SDP45 leads two SD45-2s through the big cut at Windsor. This was part of a line relocation back in the 1940s. It's now completely overgrown, and the single track that remains (operated by the Ashland Railway) runs in a tree tunnel. EL 3643 was later CR/NS 6674. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/5/2009 8:08:26 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3643(SDP45)
Views:  599   Comments: 0
EL 3681
Title:  EL 3681
Description:  The last freight loco EL ever bought heads a westbound at the Pavonia Road overpass near Windsor, OH. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 7/11/2007 10:06:38 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3681(SD45-2)
Views:  2041   Comments: 0
EL 1022
Title:  EL 1022
Description:  Help arrives in the form of EL RS3 1022, the Ashland switcher. Shoving on the rear of caboose C-327, EL 2511 makes it to the top of the grade, and will have clear sailing the rest of the way to Marion. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/14/2009 8:24:51 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 1022(RS3)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
EL 2511
Title:  EL 2511
Description:  The crew of this EL westbound, dragging upgrade through the big cut at Windsor, will soon come to grips with the fact they have a full tonnage train and their second unit has died. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/14/2009 8:00:56 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 2511(U25B)
Views:  577   Comments: 1
EL 2511
Title:  EL 2511
Description:  With the second unit dead, this train is just about to stall on the westbound grade between Ashland and Mansfield, OH. A call has been made for reinforcements. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/14/2009 8:13:39 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 2511(U25B)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
EL 2522
Title:  EL 2522
Description:  Eastbound four unit power balance near Five Points, between Ashland and Mansfield, OH. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/13/2009 9:23:39 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 2522(U25B)
Views:  538   Comments: 0
EL 3602
Title:  EL 3602
Description:  An EL westbound works through the big cut at Windsor with a brand new UP U30C being delivered from GE Erie. These units were usually put into service at Marion and then worked westward to Chicago. EL 3602 was later CR 6067. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 6:24:12 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3602(SD45)
Views:  1000   Comments: 1
EL C-893
Title:  EL C-893
Description:  Former Lackawanna hack does the honors on this eastbound cab hop between Mansfield and Ashland, OH. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 7/24/2006 9:08:11 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3651(SDP45)
Views:  1249   Comments: 0
N&W 8495
Title:  N&W 8495
Description:  Two N&W U30Bs handle a short pig train eastbound on the EL main between Mansfield and Ashland. This is the New York Cannonball, a Dereco-era E. St. Louis-Croxton (NJ) N&W-EL run-through via Huntington, IN. Note the two ice bunker refrigerator cars in the consist. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 6:29:37 AM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 8495(U30B)
Views:  1129   Comments: 2
EL 3662
Title:  EL 3662
Description:  An EL westbound climbs the grade between Ashland and Mansfield with high and wide machinery loads, an EL staple, first out behind the power. EL 3662 was later CR 6693, VMVX 6693, rebuilt by MK Rail to SP SD40M-3 8695, is now extant as UP 2771. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/5/2007 8:20:58 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3662(SDP45)
Views:  826   Comments: 0
EL 810
Title:  EL 810
Description:  An E8 and three F7s in ABBA configuration slide down the hill from Mansfield with eastbound tonnage. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/5/2009 3:32:20 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 810(E8A)
Views:  675   Comments: 1
EL 814
Title:  EL 814
Description:  Two E8s and a GP35 grind up the grade westbound between Ashland and Mansfield. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/5/2009 3:38:59 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 814(E8A)
Views:  865   Comments: 1
EL 3321
Title:  EL 3321
Description:  EL westbound grinds upgrade through the big cut near Windsor. This was part of a line relocation back in the steam era; the original main line ran around this hill about 1/2 mile to the left (north). Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/9/2009 2:44:14 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3321(U36C)
Views:  693   Comments: 0
EL 3664
Title:  EL 3664
Description:  Nine cars of high and wide or restricted loads, long an Erie/EL staple, are first out in this westbound. EL 3664 was later Conrail 6695. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/9/2009 6:57:08 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 3664(SDP45)
Views:  664   Comments: 0
EL 814
Title:  EL 814
Description:  A former DL&W E8 leads a short westbound local freight through the big cut at Windsor. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/27/2009 7:51:04 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EL 814(E8A)
Views:  715   Comments: 2
ASRY right of way
Title:  ASRY right of way
Description:  View is eastward down the Ashland Railway's right of way from the Pavonia Road overpass near Windsor, OH. This is the former EL mainline. Compare to http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=810067.
Photo Date:  6/26/2007  Upload Date: 7/12/2007 7:55:51 PM
Location:  Windsor, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Views:  624   Comments: 1


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