Gallery

East of Cedarville, passenger train, likely 1910's [1]

Freight Train Approaching from the East, 1920s [1]

Railroad Employees 1920s [1]

Cedarville Station from the East, 1920s [1]

Telegraph Office worker, 1925 [1]

Cedarville Station 1929 from the West [1]

Cedarville Station 1929 (College Students) [1]

Cedarville Station looking East from Main St, 1930. [1]

Freight Train from Xenia, 1930s [1]

July 18th, 1936, Bud McFarland, Jim Webster, Asa Jones, and J Hider(?) Waiting for the 10:16. [1]

Jim Webster at Cedarville station, 1936. [1]

July 18th 1936, Railroad Car being loaded by Bud McFarland, likely the same cart as in the prior photo. [1]

Likely the final set of these photos further down the tracks, because of the similar position of the goods. Cart lettering reads "Railway Express Agency" [1]

Looking across the tracks at S Main St [1]

Railroad Shanty at South Miller St [1]

Herb Myers, the flagman in the railroad shanty [1]

1939, Fred Kaiser is the worker in the Foreground [1]

PRR 5459 heads up a passenger train east through Cedarville. 5495 is a K-4S Pacific, and would serve from 1928 to 1953.

1968 Penn Central Accident [1]

1968 Penn Central Accident. (Locomotive in distance is PC 7121 GP9) [1]

1968 Penn Central Accident [1]

From Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol. 1 Pittsburgh to St. Louis 1960-1999: Train derailments can be a spectacularly messy affair, especially if the accident occurs at speed. Such was the case in early April 1968 when PC's westbound "Dixie Jet" (DJ-3, Conway-DeCoursey, KY/L&N) had a hotbox and piled them up at Cedarville, Ohio. A family has walked down to the tracks to see the aftermath of the wreck, seemingly oblivious to freshly painted GP9 #7121 dumping ballast on Number Two track. (Robert Fisher, Jr.)

From Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol. 1 Pittsburgh to St. Louis 1960-1999: Elsewhere at the same derailment site, a former Pennsylvania wreck crane is lifting a flatcar with its attached piggyback trailer, while a pair of cranes works beside it. Two labels on the trailer read, "Compressed Gas." (Jim O'Dell)

From Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol. 1 Pittsburgh to St. Louis 1960-1999: You can almost hear the Doppler shift from the 2323's horn as PC train TT-3 zooms westbound through Cedarville, Ohio, on the evening of August 1, 1968. As usual, the TrucTrain, as Pennsy called its piggyback trains, has modern, high horsepower motors. On this day, GP35 #2323 is joined by a Century 628, SD45 and another GP35 -- all former PRR running mates. Penn Central eventually combined PRR's TrucTrain and NYC's SuperVan intermodal brands to create the familiar TrailVan or TV nomenclature. (Robert Fisher, Jr.)