{"id":1823,"date":"2013-03-26T06:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:21:32","slug":"vestige-of-the-erie-railroad-near-kenton-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/vestige-of-the-erie-railroad-near-kenton-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Vestige of the Erie Railroad, near Kenton, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking east toward oblivion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Former<\/a>
Former Erie Railroad mainline east of Kenton, Ohio. West of the Pennsylvania-Ohio line, the former Erie route was fragmented following the creation of Conrail in 1976.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On June 14, 2010, I spent the day tracing the route of the old Erie Railroad between Marion, Ohio<\/a> and the Ohio-Indiana state line. At Marion, the former Erie line is still active, albeit integrated with other routes. West of Marion, it\u2019s largely abandoned. In some places the former double-track mainline is easy to follow, in others it has been ploughed under with virtually no evidence left to hint that it was ever there.<\/p>\n

At Kenton, Ohio, I found this vestige of Erie double track, where the line crossed County Road 140, east of Main Street. I\u2019m looking east, toward Marion. I can only imagine The Lake Cities<\/em> (Jersey City-Chicago) racing west across this crossing, or one of Erie\u2019s magnificent S-class Berkshires hitting the crossing with tonnage.<\/p>\n

I was happy to find track in place to give me some sense of what the railroad was about. Who knows what I\u2019ll find if I return in ten years time.<\/p>\n

Exposed with my Lumix LX-3 digital camera.<\/p>\n

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