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By:Fred Stuckmann
Dates:8/16/2010 - 8/16/2010
Album Info:Wendy and I gotto enjoy a perfect summer day together in downtown Akron and Berea. There is quite a mix, as we carried no particular theme through the day. I hope you enjoy what we found.
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Looking beyond the tracks.
Title:  Looking beyond the tracks.
Description:  EL, B&O, and Pennsy all ran just below this image. The University of Akron owns pretty much all that you see.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:46:49 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
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Views:  103   Comments: 3
Six floors up.
Title:  Six floors up.
Description:  Wheeling yard job makes it's way east on track 1.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:37:49 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AB 1502(SW1500)
Views:  430   Comments: 2
One bridge remains.
Title:  One bridge remains.
Description:  And the yard job makes it's way east.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:40:38 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AB 1502(SW1500)
Views:  423   Comments: 4
A look up N. Broadway.
Title:  A look up N. Broadway.
Description:  Quaker Oats silos provide both hotel rooms and student housing. We switched the place into the 70s.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:44:04 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
Rust Bucket.
Title:  Rust Bucket.
Description:  Empty Coke Train. My fear of heights was stronger today than usual.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:50:06 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 8530(SD50)
Views:  260   Comments: 2
Warm and sunny, low humidity.
Title:  Warm and sunny, low humidity.
Description:  Good grief, no parapet on that roof.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:54:14 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
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Views:  166   Comments: 4
Westbound on track 2.
Title:  Westbound on track 2.
Description:  With the Wheeling operating on track 1, I knew that we would not see a westbound for some time.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 4:57:03 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
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Views:  137   Comments: 2
Back on Terra Firma.
Title:  Back on Terra Firma.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:00:28 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 4553(SD70MAC) CSX 7536(C40-8)
Views:  261   Comments: 5
Fallen Flag.
Title:  Fallen Flag.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:03:04 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  105   Comments: 2
Clearing the bridge.
Title:  Clearing the bridge.
Description:  As the eastbound leaves we make our way north to Berea.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:04:51 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
How to remove used welded rail.
Title:  How to remove used welded rail.
Description:  You cut it in pieces.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:16:12 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
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Views:  153   Comments: 2
New rail in place.
Title:  New rail in place.
Description:  Hasn't seen much traffic.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:19:09 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
Traffic for the new rail.
Title:  Traffic for the new rail.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:21:16 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 7908(C40-8W)
Views:  122   Comments: 4
Check out the blues.
Title:  Check out the blues.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:23:44 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  85   Comments: 0
Eastbound stacks running very slowly.
Title:  Eastbound stacks running very slowly.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:28:54 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9534(C40-9W) NS 9964(C40-9W)
Views:  108   Comments: 0
Eastbound.
Title:  Eastbound.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:31:44 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9534(C40-9W)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
Although both units are the same.....
Title:  Although both units are the same.....
Description:  ....this one has a white unibrow.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 5:34:04 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9964(C40-9W)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
Passing the tower and MoW equipment.
Title:  Passing the tower and MoW equipment.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:16:30 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9534(C40-9W)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
That's why they ran slow.
Title:  That's why they ran slow.
Description:  They were getting run around. That's the best view we got of the second train. Approach on CSX.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:19:45 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Cut part way.....
Title:  Cut part way.....
Description:  ....then pick it up a bit and it will snap.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:23:17 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
Just 12 years old.
Title:  Just 12 years old.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:25:40 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  128   Comments: 0
Before too long all that scrap will take on a new identity.
Title:  Before too long all that scrap will take on a new identity.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:28:13 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
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Views:  113   Comments: 3
Looking east up the NS.
Title:  Looking east up the NS.
Description:  CSX in the foreground.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:30:34 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Signal,Track
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Views:  88   Comments: 0
NS track gang also working on their track.
Title:  NS track gang also working on their track.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:33:44 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
Dwarf.
Title:  Dwarf.
Description:  It's possible to come off NS and onto CSX, but not with that signal indication.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:36:03 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Signal,Track
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Views:  130   Comments: 0
Not moving.
Title:  Not moving.
Description:  Every now and then a wisp of smoke indicated that it was running.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:38:44 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories: 
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Views:  99   Comments: 0
East up CSX.
Title:  East up CSX.
Description:  Past the depot. The agent was showing it to someone, was that you?
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:41:45 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Signal,Track
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Views:  103   Comments: 3
Never saw that before.
Title:  Never saw that before.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:44:39 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track
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Views:  122   Comments: 2
NS track gang performing a grab and go.
Title:  NS track gang performing a grab and go.
Description:  Those jaws remind me of the T Rex skeleton I've seen.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:47:22 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  88   Comments: 0
And off he goes, like a jousting knight.
Title:  And off he goes, like a jousting knight.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:50:49 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  91   Comments: 2
On patrol.
Title:  On patrol.
Description:  He made a couple of passes, checking out the new rail after the earlier eastbound came through.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:53:34 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  80   Comments: 0
Westbound auto racks.
Title:  Westbound auto racks.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:57:03 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9760(C40-9W)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
Sounding off to alert the track gang working ahead.
Title:  Sounding off to alert the track gang working ahead.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 6:59:05 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9760(C40-9W) NS 9718(C40-9W)
Views:  124   Comments: 3
Like the earlier matched set......
Title:  Like the earlier matched set......
Description:  ......only one white unibrow.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 7:02:20 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9760(C40-9W) NS 9718(C40-9W)
Views:  126   Comments: 2
Fallen Flag.
Title:  Fallen Flag.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 7:04:51 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  87   Comments: 0
Fallen Flag.
Title:  Fallen Flag.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 7:07:12 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Fallen Flag.
Title:  Fallen Flag.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 7:09:21 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  81   Comments: 0
Fallen Flag.
Title:  Fallen Flag.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 7:11:42 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  72   Comments: 0
Fallen Flag.
Title:  Fallen Flag.
Description:  As this westbound left town, so did we. Thanks for cruising with "The Captain and the Kid". Jimmy Buffett.
Photo Date:  8/16/2010  Upload Date: 8/16/2010 7:13:50 PM
Location:  Berea, OH
Author:  Fred Stuckmann
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  99   Comments: 3


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