So much good in this video!!! Hard to believe 44 years ago. I watched 4070 on Horseshoe, (broke down,but fixed) and the stub into Conneaut Lake, and a trip from Erie to around Osgood.
I fired on the trip the weekend before the eccentric rod came 'undone'. The whole fiasco was due to a simple cotter pin that had worn thin and broke off. The castellated nut holding the eccentric rod to the crank loosened and the pin fell out. I spent just about every weekend at Conneaut Lake in 1971-72. Only a mile out & back but it was better than a static display. All the time running on the same LH curve at Lynce's Junction caused a lot of wear on the right-front driver flange.
Really glad you found this! I believe the first shot is at Tower R near Harshaw Chemical. 1:45 might be Portage Path + Merriman, it's changed a lot. 2:37 - Turning at the elevated coal dock in Akron. Coal dock is still there, visible on streetview from Eastwood Ave, but the small engine house is gone. I don't remember the name of the elevated tower that used to be there. You can see the remains of the track + wye they used by the engine house area, west of Eastwood. Close to the coal dock at 4:20, and a WW-II troop car at 4:49. Still watching...
Hello, Thanks. First shot is under the Grainger Road bridge. The old boarding area was near the Value City Furniture store near there. Yes, N. Portage Path was a busy crossing. A pretty good grade began here up to Botzum and into Akron Junction. Fun Times!
@@SteamCrane Are you thinking of the Clark Avenue yard office? As far as I know the next train order station west (north) of RD was Bridge 460. I'd have to ask my bro-in-law who worked there. [edit] Oh, sorry. You're thinking of the one at Akron Junction. I was thinking of the old wood coal dock at W. 3rd. St. The Akron Junction three-story building wasn't really a tower. It housed the chief clerk's office, terminal trainmaster and a crew locker room and it burned down in October, 2013. AY tower was just east of Arlington St. and was maintained by the PRR. Maybe the AY had something to do with Arlington Street or maybe Arlington Yard if there was ever such a thing?
Wow! I hope my legacy lives half as long. Geesh. That is REALLY - REALLY COOL on that 80s video. It has that "classic" movie style to it - and in Full Technicolor.. or Kodak, or some shit. Thanks for sharing this treasure - #RailfannersRock
Great video indeed! I love #4070❤❤❤❤
So much good in this video!!!
Hard to believe 44 years ago.
I watched 4070 on Horseshoe, (broke down,but fixed) and the stub into Conneaut Lake, and a trip from Erie to around Osgood.
I fired on the trip the weekend before the eccentric rod came 'undone'. The whole fiasco was due to a simple cotter pin that had worn thin and broke off. The castellated nut holding the eccentric rod to the crank loosened and the pin fell out. I spent just about every weekend at Conneaut Lake in 1971-72. Only a mile out & back but it was better than a static display. All the time running on the same LH curve at Lynce's Junction caused a lot of wear on the right-front driver flange.
Really glad you found this!
I believe the first shot is at Tower R near Harshaw Chemical.
1:45 might be Portage Path + Merriman, it's changed a lot.
2:37 - Turning at the elevated coal dock in Akron. Coal dock is still there, visible on streetview from Eastwood Ave, but the small engine house is gone. I don't remember the name of the elevated tower that used to be there. You can see the remains of the track + wye they used by the engine house area, west of Eastwood. Close to the coal dock at 4:20, and a WW-II troop car at 4:49.
Still watching...
Hello, Thanks. First shot is under the Grainger Road bridge. The old boarding area was near the Value City Furniture store near there. Yes, N. Portage Path was a busy crossing. A pretty good grade began here up to Botzum and into Akron Junction.
Fun Times!
21:31 - Akron coal dock again.
22:36 - Tower R if I recall the name, near Harshaw Chemical.
@@SteamCrane Yes, RD Tower where the CL&W branches off and the W&LE cross. Harvard Road near Jennings.
Thanks.
@@gmpullman Thanks, I couldn't remember the tower name. What was the 2 level tower just west of the coal dock?
@@SteamCrane Are you thinking of the Clark Avenue yard office? As far as I know the next train order station west (north) of RD was Bridge 460. I'd have to ask my bro-in-law who worked there.
[edit] Oh, sorry. You're thinking of the one at Akron Junction. I was thinking of the old wood coal dock at W. 3rd. St.
The Akron Junction three-story building wasn't really a tower. It housed the chief clerk's office, terminal trainmaster and a crew locker room and it burned down in October, 2013. AY tower was just east of Arlington St. and was maintained by the PRR. Maybe the AY had something to do with Arlington Street or maybe Arlington Yard if there was ever such a thing?
Wow! I hope my legacy lives half as long. Geesh.
That is REALLY - REALLY COOL on that 80s video. It has that "classic" movie style to it - and in Full Technicolor.. or Kodak, or some shit.
Thanks for sharing this treasure - #RailfannersRock
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Would be nice if 4070 ran on Hocking valley scenic trackage
Fun video! Where is the 4070 now?
RIP (Resting In Pieces) at the old B&O roundhouse on W. 3rd. St. in Cleveland, Ohio. Thanks!
@@gmpullman Any hope of reassembly and getting into steam?
@@BadlandNP Lots of enthusiasm but, sadly, little capital or resources.
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