Crossing: (Satellite)
Pennsy Depot: (Satellite)
B&O Depot: (Satellite)
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| Raymond Storey posted REVENNA OHIO |
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| Rick Fleisher posted PRR sharks head a train moving from the PRR's C&P to the B&O mainline at Brady Lake (Ravenna, OH). The train is eastbound. The PRR had trackage rights on the B&O from this point to Niles, Jct. Tom Barnett PRR's Y&R Connection (double track) which ran from MV Jct or later called Rave tower down under the C&P main to the B&O's RN tower. The New York Central also had trackage rights for moves to and from its LE&P Branch (i.e. Brady Lake to Marcy). I've got some NYC train dispatcher books from 1957 and the NYC ran a substantial number of Elyria-Youngstown freights via the route captioned in above photo. In later years, the Y&R Connection was reduced to one track only (the old Westbound main) and after the Conrail first window of abandonments in 1982, it was totally abandoned and removed. |
Here is a closeup of the Pennsy depot that we see in the above photo.
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| American-Rails.com posted A quartet of Penn Central F7s roll past the former PRR depot in Ravenna, Ohio with a string of hoppers during the early 1970s. The photographer's 1969 Dodge Charger can be seen in the foreground. Jerry Custer photo. |
The connection is gone, but both routes exist, although with fewer tracks.
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Darren Reynolds posted five photos with the comment: "B&Os 'RN' tower..Ravenna, Ohio."
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| 1 "RN" tower in July 1984 and the connection to Conrail (PRR) It's gone now. Photo by: David P. Oroszi Darren Reynolds posted A Chessie Freight passes by "RN" tower on July 1984. By now the Junction with the PRRs Connection to "Rave" tower is gone. Photo by: David P. Oroszi Keiv Spare shared |
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| 2 In this picture you can see the interlocking and the Connection to the PRR at "RN" tower... Note the PRR Signal on the right. Photo & Date: Unknown [Another demonstration that signalling pipelines could go around curves.] Lee Higgins: The "Ravenna Connection" earned an article in Trains magazine in the 1980s I believe. |
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| 3 In 1977 the pipeline was still in use.. "RN" tower Photo by: Rob Mandeville |
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| 4 "RN" tower by this time October 12, 1992 the switches are all electric and no more pipeline.. Photo by: Robert Staples Bryan Porter: The PRR connections are gone too. 🙁 I remember walking across page st. seeing the ROW below and the crossing flashers still in place on Diamond st. |
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| 5 A 1930 view of "RN" tower Photo by: Henry Wilhelm NRHS All images from North American interlockings States A to Z and Canada.. Chad Winans: When this photo was taken, the call letters were”NE”. Bryan Porter: A PRR 2-8-0 pulls a train headed south crossing along side the old NOT&L line overhead. The new PRR main was built or being built. Not sure exactly when it was completed from Hudson to Ravenna. |
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| 1961 Kent and Ravenna Quads @ 24,000 |
To find the location of the B&O Depot, I got older maps that didn't have just a blob of red.
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| 1906/41 Kent and 1906/61 Ravenna Quads @ 62,500 |
The rectangle west of Prospect Street and north of the tracks looks promising. But this aerial confirms what the postcard shows, the depot was closer to Chestnut Street.
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| Apr 17, 1952 @ 17,000; AR1PH0000060166 |
The overpass has been upgraded, but the curve in the track is the same as the postcard.
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| Street View, Jun 2023 |
Dennis, I wish I could back to the day this picture was taken. Just imagine the action here with the B&O, the PRR ore and passenger trains and the NYC trains from the LE&P. I grew up in Bedford, just north of here in the 70's but to see this place in the 50's would have a train watcher's dream. Thanks for sharing this awesome photo. Dave
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