Wheeling & Lake Erie (WE) 6982 - EMD SD40-2

WE 6982 trails 2nd of 5 on WE 213.

661 will drop the 7015 and its cars, tie onto the 712 and head east.

Westbound train with 20 cars Eannotti Road near Owensdale. It was making fast time with such a light load.

Leaving CSX and interchanging onto W&LE rails with a small train of 20 cars.

The train stops momentarily over the RJ Corman to clear up their track warrant and to let the Ohio Central get settled in the yard. Even after all these years that Wheeling has owned these lease units, it is still very possible to see these mix/matched consists.

Ax ex-KCS SD40-2 trails 5th of 5 on WE 213.

A quartet of SD40-2's bringing a train of empty cement cars and loaded LPG tank cars into the Connellsville CSX Yard.

A westbound train of empty tank cars and loaded cement hoppers, interchanging from CSX to the WLE trackage.

Westbound train going past Eannotti Road near Owensdale, PA. #6383 is named the J.J. Gonzalez.

Power sitting around in Rook Yard

Leaving Connellsville with two boxcar buffers and a mix of covered hoppers and tankers. #6353 was one of the locomotives in the "Unstoppable" movie and still has the same horn.

Owner: Wheeling & Lake Erie Model: EMD SD40-2 Built As: KCS 633 (SD40) Serial Number: 35845 Order No: 7223 Frame Number: 7223-2 Built: 3/1971 Other locos with this serial: KCS 633(SD40) KCS 4633(SD40) WE 6349(SD40-2) WE 6982(SD40-2) KCS 671(SD40-3) KCS 3165(SD40-3)

A Wheeling train waits to enter the NS yard in Bellevue.

I'll see what's left after work.

The stone season is under way.

SD40s couple up to 4-axle units to take a freight eastbound

WE SD40s making up train of empty coke hoppers

Crew set to work switching LPG tank cars from west end of Rook Yard

Crew set to work switching LPG tank cars from west end of Rook Yard

Pair of SD40's parked near office at Rook Yard