Hi, Continuing east, we began Wednesday, August 18 with a stop at the Wheeling & Lake Erie's small yard in Hartland Township, Ohio. There we learned that a train would soon head east to the Sunrise Cooperative Elevator in Clarksfield, OH.
We beat the train to Clarksfield by a good bit allowing us time to walk around and pick our locations. In the photo above a pair SD40s pull a train of empty covered hoppers into the elevator area.
After the Wheeling crew spotted the empties in the small yard just to the west of the elevator and departed back to their yard, the elevator's GE 44 tonner coupled on to a cut of hoppers and proceeded to spot them, one at a time, for loading.
After we got our fill of shots of the loading process we decided to check out Spencer, OH as two Wheeling routes cross here and there frequently is a train here. Regrettably the grade crossings were being rebuilt so access was extremely limited. On the plus side, there was a train switching. When we were sure the train had departed we took a chance and went looking for it, and found it at River Corners.
We caught the train again at County Road 39 in Wellington, OH and
Smith Road in Chatham Township, OH.
Eventually we reached Medina, OH which provided a number of opportunities (above and four below).
In this view the locomotives are parked so we left.
On our way to our lodgings we stopped at North Lima, OH (nowhere near Lima), the home base (although not the shops) of the Youngstown and Southeastern. One unit was parked here.
Just west of the NS yard in Youngstown we found three more Youngstown and Southeastern units. This would be the power for the August 19 train to Signal, OH.
After the Wheeling crew spotted the empties in the small yard just to the west of the elevator and departed back to their yard, the elevator's GE 44 tonner coupled on to a cut of hoppers and proceeded to spot them, one at a time, for loading.
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