Northeast Ohio Trains Spring 2023

Various adventures around northeast Ohio from April through June 2023. --Locations-- 0:00 - CSX L317 heads east on the CL&W across the East Branch of the Rocky River in Strongsville. 0:48 - CSX L323 at Big Creek Reservation in Brooklyn (also on the CL&W). 1:28 - Wheeling local coming into Spencer on the AC&Y 2:40 - Wheeling 224 at Creston 5:35 - Wheeling local at Monroeville. The engines on the head end will cut off and run to a quarry near Sandusky and return with stone loads (seen later), while the rear engine will pick up and spot Monroeville and return to Hartland Yard. 8:20 - Same train approaching Hartland. 8:58 - Aforementioned stone train see-sawing through CP Mini Plant in Bellevue on NS. The heavy diesel exhaust was from an engine in the yard. 12:15 - same train battling 1.16% Norwalk hill 15:03 - same train again at DeRussy Road near West Clarksfield. They dropped off an NS pilot at Hartland Yard, plus there was a 10 MPH slow order, which enabled me to get ahead of them again in a short distance. 16:56 - CSX westbound at Wellington 19:31 - Same Wheeling stone train entering the yard limits at Spencer. 20:44 - Wheeling train 238 crossing Fulton Rd near Smithville. 21:27 - Wheeling train 291 just west of Medina with some private varnish on the rear. 22:23 - NS westbound at Olmsted Falls. 24:51 - CSX coal train passing at Kent. I'm standing on the former Erie main. 26:05 - Wheeling job at the same location. The cement place takes up a portion of the former Erie yard. 27:10 - CSX stack train at same location. 28:24 - NS #316 at one of the three dozen crossings within the city of Lakewood. 30:06 - NS at Danbury with "DL 190" on its way to the Delaware-Lackawanna. 34:06 - Same train with a closer look of the 190 at Amherst. (Yes, there's an editing mistake here). 36:29 - NS frac sand train approaching Bayard, then again from the high bridge near Summitville. 39:11 - Hazy morning at Sokowloski's Overlook and Drawbridge 2 in downtown Cleveland. The light engine was C27 returning to Rockport. 47:48 - Back at the Erie/trail bridge in Kent. 52:05 - ABC (Akron-Barberton Cluster) and CSX in downtown Akron. The CSX freight is passing the former Union Station (now a city building). The platforms were once under the extant walkway. 56:02 - Boats and trains at Drawbridge in Cleveland. If you like boats and trains this is the spot for you.