ABOVE: Wheeling & Lake Erie No. 5391 rolls by Hallett Tower in Toledo with southbound empties on August 14, 2007.
RIGHT: The Wheeling has quite the variety of motive power as seen by this coke train at New London powered by a Wheeling high-hood GP35 riding on Alco trucks with an SD90MAC trailing on a rainy August 7, 2007.
presented itself in 2007 I jumped at the chance to attend and included the Wheeling in my travel plans. I flew to Columbus, Ohio, and headed north to Carey. Some research prior to my departure had indicated that the tunnel motors were often used on the rock trains to and from Carey. I located the small yard and found nothing running, but it was nice to grab a picture of the Grande- inspired paint on ex-Southern high- hood Geep No. 104. The next morning, I started my day in Fostoria and worked my way back to Carey. While I did catch a couple of rock trains, each was led by ex-UP SD90s on lease to the Wheeling. Ugh, not what I had in mind! I made my way to the diamond at Greenwich and picked off a Wheeling train led by W&LE No. 2679, a GP35 riding on Alco trucks in the early red/ yellow scheme, with a trailing former New York, Susquehanna & Western
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SD70M (which was probably part of the CSX fleet at this point). A nice bonus, but again, not what I was looking for. There was no lack of trains at Greenwich, since it seemed there was always a train banging across the diamond. The weather took a decided turn for the worse and the skies really let loose. I moved on to New London where the W&LE’s former Akron,
Canton & Youngstown line joins CSX at a junction and was rewarded with a coke train in a summer downpour. At least this train had an SD90 as a trailing unit with No. 106 in Grande-inspired paint doing the honors up front. I followed this train west through Willard and Attica and ended the day along the CSX main between Fostoria and Willard. The next morning was gloomy with
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