Erie Lackawanna Marion, Ohio to Huntington, Indiana

I'll try to nail the Indiana locations like I did on the other one: 20:50 St. Marys River bridge in Decatur, looking east at Mercer Ave. Water tower base remained until a few years ago. 23:15 Pacing down US 224. I went out this way with a friend once while we explored the old ROW for remnants 24:54 This bridge may be the one that once passed over Meridian Rd just outside Uniondale 25:03 S. Broadway St. overpass. All that remains here now is telegraph poles buried in a forest on the west side, and nothing on the east side. 25:34 Looking northwest from the same overpass. This is all forest now (again, with a telegraph pole here and there) 26:10 Looking west at EL/N&W crossing, train is crossing Briant St. N&W line is now the NS Huntington District, and is alive and well. As for the EL in this location modern-day... it's like it was never there in the first place. 0 signs of anything, wiped 100% clean. 26:19 Same train crossing EL diamonds. 26:33 EL depot, just north of the diamonds in the last few shots. Again, nothing remains here today. All following shots through the end are generally in the same spot.

Very good work. As a kid I grew up in Lima and lived about a half mile west of the DT&I interlocking. ( south side of the tracks) I remember watching hundreds of EL freights and passenger trains going thru Lima. I seem to recall a lot of reefer blocks , particularly eastbound, of UPFE, PFE of west coast produce as well as Swift and Hormel reefers of fresh meat. I always perceived the EL as preferred “bridge carrier” between certain western roads and their east coast receivers. ( NKP was sorta one also) The EL also switched out a fair amount of tankers and coke hoppers 17:32 at the Sohio Refinery just past the EL overpass over Metcalf st. As someone else said, those were the days of gritty Midwest railroading. I’m glad I had the opportunity to see it!

I grew up on old L&N in Kentucky loved seeing the old caboose we lived right next to the tracks always stopped to watch them pass thanks

Good old gritty railroading in the midwest at its best. Thanks for posting this! That track was something else.

this is great this is a film not a video. love the old films of trains:face-fuchsia-wide-eyes:

Nice Chessie caboose at 17:23. Railroad Media Archive does excellent work with their videos. Thank you for sharing

Really nice again to see more of Paul's EL footage. For this one, the soundtrack I'm listening to is Kalinnikov's 1st Symphony (1st Movement) - on behalf of Ron's EL West End video. Here are a few more locations: 20:25 Indiana State Road 101 crossing near the IN/OH State Line (Rivare, IN). The train is westbound. 21:33 Winchester St. in Decatur, IN. It had a crossing watchman during the daytime and you can see him waving to the conductor at the end of the sequence. I'll bet those truck or bus chassis came from International Harvester in Springfield, OH. The passenger depot you see later became a museum and was nearly 150 years old when it was demolished in 1998. 22:14 DA Tower in Decatur, IN where the GR&I crossed. Paul is standing at the Line St. crossing and the train is eastbound. The speeds through Decatur were once pretty fast, but by the time this was shot it had been lowered quite a bit. Denny Hake's footage that you have on this channel has some great shots from this same location, including N&W on the Clover Leaf. 22:31 GS Tower in Kingsland, IN

Very awesome Neat things stand out 1. How short the trains were 2. No graffiti to be found anywhere on the boxcars or any cars for that matter 3. Didn't know that the Midwest Ohio or Indiana had some wigs 4. How cool to see the wishbone gate around the 20:58 mark with the candy cane gate light

Just so awesome. I have a number of pictures between Lima and Huntington, all after Conrail. So it was great to see EL action here. Thank you so much.

I remember Erie Lackawanna going through Mansfield, Ohio in the 60's. Very busy line across there then.

The B&O and the Erie and the Pennsy all used an interlocking in Akron and I cant remember its name and also the one at Sterling which was also gone when I started operating to Willard but heard plenty of stories about the Erie …. Thanks for sharing these videos, those “ wagon tops “ were warm in the winter ….

Thank you for sharing. It was a FAN-tastic video, so many memories for me.👍

Aww, I'm kind of sad I didn't get to see Spencerville Ohio. I can hardly find anything about them here when they existed. This was still cool to watch.

Nice Railroading Keep Up The Good Work

Keep up the great content Thanks!

Cool footage 😊

Man I'm from Marion and I drive past this yard everyday I wish I could of seen it back then

...Great video thank you...

Chrysler corporation was one of Erie Lackawanna's biggest customers, as countless Chrysler vehicles were shipped on Erie Lackawanna's auto racks.

Interesting to see the two B&LE cabeese in the sequence at Kenton, OH.