ABOVE: CCET No. 2807 rolls westbound out of the curve at Ancor, approaching the Broadwell Road crossing on July 15, 2014.
RIGHT: On one of its first days in service for its new owner, CCET No. 2807 pulls boxcars out of the Huhtamaki plant in Batavia on July 8, 2014. The unit obviously came from the Alaska Railroad.
first trip. The first crew taxied to Clare to pick up the locomotive, then ran light to Batavia to pick up an empty boxcar from Huhtamaki to take back to NS. CCET established headquarters
at the Evans Landscape facility in Newtown, Ohio. At first, CCET stored its motive power on the old Ancor passing siding, adjacent to the Broadwell Road crossing. Once office space was secured in the Evans building, the line began storing motive power and equipment on the Evans spur while using Ancor siding for a runaround track and occasional equipment storage. This area is now called Ancor Yard. Traffic to and from Huhtamaki was sporadic at first, but after a while things settled into a steady flow.
Motive Power Frontier Rail purchased three former
Alaska Railroad GP49s to be the motive power for the CCET. RJC No. 3863
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was leased for the first two months of operations while the ex-ARR GP49s were still in transit. The first to join the roster was CCET No. 2807, and it became the primary motive power when RJC 3863 was returned. The other two GP49s, CCET Nos. 2803 and 2806, were both found to be in need of major repair work. In December 2014, they were sent off to the RJ Corman shops in Lexington, Ky. While the 2803 remains in Alaska
Railroad colors with small CCET initials on its cabsides, 2807 has slowly gained a CCET paint job. After operating for the first few months with just a small “CCET” above the number on the cabsides, the nose and cabsides have been repainted red, with a large CCET logo on the nose as well as smaller logos and Cincinnati East Terminal lettering on the cabsides. The battery boxes have been painted black, with CCET 2807 stenciled on them and the large yellow
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