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The Youngstown Belt rolls across the former B&O at Center Street in the once-mighty steel town of Youngstown, Ohio with traffic for NS Haselton Yard. The lead unit, OHCR #8702, was one of 54 GP11s rebuilt at Illinois Central's Paducah Shops from first-gen EMDs; it was built as a Union Pacific GP9.
Youngstown Belt is pulling empty coiled steel gons from their main customer in Warren Ohio. ClarkDietrich turns the coiled steel into building interior components. Some fans have dropped into this operation recently and found back-to-back geeps on both the Warren and Haselton jobs with one pair still being in the Ohio Central maroon and yellow.. I found a single long hood forward geep headed to Warren and a pair of long hood forward geeps manning the Haselton job. The single OC geep stayed in the yard. Sticking with the Warren job made for a good chase on the return to Brier Hill. The Youngstown Belt operates over a pieced-together collection of the spaghetti that is former Conrail track in the Youngstown Ohio area. This section is on the former Erie Lackawanna's Pymatuning cutoff.
The 18 story First National Tower dominates the city skyline and is one of the finest Art Deco buildings in the US. The building was designed by Morris W. Schiebel in 1929.
Faded lettering on a very rusty boxcar seen in Dillwyn, Va. Appears to be an ex-Youngstown and Southern car.
A nice find on 11/13/2023 thanks to some round about networking was that there were 2 OC-painted geeps paired up for the transfer between their Brier Hill yard and NS's Haselton yard. Here they are returning to Brier Hill passing by downtown Youngstown. It's been 15 years since G&W bought the Ohio Central system of shortlines so getting 2 maroon-painted units together is pretty rare. The trackage here is the former PRR line to Ashtabula.