This video starts out 7 miles to the southeast at Spencer, Ohio - where I caught a meet at the ex-AC&Y diamond adjacent to Route 301. Some ex-NW high-hood SD45s, a slug (9951), and a GP35 take the coal train to Wellington. After hanging around the Spencer diamond for a few minutes, I followed the WLE coal train to Wellington, where an eastbound Conrail TV train comes through first. I’m pretty sure this was TV-6. The WLE drops off the string of coal and the Cleveland Electric GP38-2 lashup of 4 comes in to take them away. The WLE power finally heads back across the diamond to Brewster. I saw this operation at least one other time, catching it on video just this one time. I was only monitoring the WLE channel (161.025 MHz) with my 2-meter HT. The southeast interchange track at Wellington is gone today and the Conrail (now CSX) is double-track. Long before this was filmed, there was a connection on the northeast corner, as well. In the final shot, I am standing just about where Huff Tower (WC) used to be. VHS original. Thanks for watching! ~ Zeke
10 сен 2024