Not just EM-1’s
Local freight and switching duty on the Lake Branch was handled by 0-8-0s and 2-8-2s. In the Fairport Harbor yard, Mikado 4404 starts a string of coal cars bound for the dumper at the dock.
Jim Shaughnessy
Local freight and switching duty on the Lake Branch was handled by 0-8-0s and 2-8-2s. In the Fairport Harbor yard, Mikado 4404 starts a string of coal cars bound for the dumper at the dock.
Jim Shaughnessy
Backing past Middlefield
EM-1 7611 is about two-thirds into its 31-mile reverse move from Painesville to Failes Spur to help another coal train as it passes the tidy frame depot at Middlefield.
Jim Shaughnessy
EM-1 7611 is about two-thirds into its 31-mile reverse move from Painesville to Failes Spur to help another coal train as it passes the tidy frame depot at Middlefield.
Jim Shaughnessy
Giant at the door
EM-1 7605 is framed in the doorway of the rickety old engine house at Painesville. White “extra” flags have been placed in anticipation of the next run.
Jim Shaughnessy
EM-1 7605 is framed in the doorway of the rickety old engine house at Painesville. White “extra” flags have been placed in anticipation of the next run.
Jim Shaughnessy
Twin 2-8-8-4s
At the Painesville engine terminal, EM-1 7628 moves past a sister.
Jim Shaughnessy
At the Painesville engine terminal, EM-1 7628 moves past a sister.
Jim Shaughnessy
Welded tender
No rivets mar the surface of the all-welded tender of a B&O EM-1 in service on the Lake Branch in 1955.
Jim Shaughnessy
No rivets mar the surface of the all-welded tender of a B&O EM-1 in service on the Lake Branch in 1955.
Jim Shaughnessy
Taking water at Painesville
EM-1 7617 takes water at B&O’s Painesville, Ohio, engine terminal, where Lake Branch power was serviced.
Jim Shaughnessy
EM-1 7617 takes water at B&O’s Painesville, Ohio, engine terminal, where Lake Branch power was serviced.
Jim Shaughnessy
Broadside
EM-1 7605 runs backward down the Lake Branch to Failes Spur, where it will await the arrival of a coal train that it will help toward Fairport Harbor.
Jim Shaughnessy
EM-1 7605 runs backward down the Lake Branch to Failes Spur, where it will await the arrival of a coal train that it will help toward Fairport Harbor.
Jim Shaughnessy
Helper and road engine
EM-1’s 7611 (helper) and 7625 (road engine) pull hard on a coal train bound for the Lake Erie docks at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, in August 1955.
Jim Shaughnessy
EM-1’s 7611 (helper) and 7625 (road engine) pull hard on a coal train bound for the Lake Erie docks at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, in August 1955.
Jim Shaughnessy
