To Bennett Levin and everyone else involved, Crest Tower highballed the PRR 5711 East over the Big Four at 10:55 a.m. today. What a classy operation that train is. Thanks for coming slowly through Crestline so everyone could get a good look. I do not believe No. 28 in all her glory ever looked better clearing Crestline. Speaking of clearing, now if we could just get rid of all the weeds around the diamond.....But even the excess brush couldn't dim this great look back at the PRR. Thanks to all of you who made this possible. Jim Tighe, Galion, OH.

stighe1@columbus.rr.com

> To Bennett Levin and everyone else involved,
> Crest Tower highballed the PRR 5711 East
> over the Big Four at 10:55 a.m. today. What
> a classy operation that train is. Thanks for
> coming slowly through Crestline so everyone
> could get a good look. I do not believe No.
> 28 in all her glory ever looked better
> clearing Crestline. Speaking of clearing,
> now if we could just get rid of all the
> weeds around the diamond.....But even the
> excess brush couldn't dim this great look
> back at the PRR. Thanks to all of you who
> made this possible. Jim Tighe, Galion, OH.
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We had followed the classic PRR E-8 engines and train since Saturday morning @ West Lafayette, Ohio. (And in the rain.)
The lay over in Columbus last night and early this am made for some excellent "Golden Hour" video, after and before sunrise.
The dynamic and dueling PRR E-8's stormed, and I mean "stormed effortlessly" with power to spare as the huge engines just did their jobs, northbound out of Columbus around 8am this monday morning over the former Pennsy main (PRR Columbus/Sandusky Branch).

The engineer gave the best goodbye horn sequence as they glided northbound through the "S" curve just north of downtown Columbus.

[Yes folks, this indeed took me back to the 1960's, when I was just a kid, on the PRR FT. Wayne Division in and around Bucyrus and Crestline, Ohio. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.....]

We most appreciate the "Grand Show" from everyone involved with the PRR E-8's and train. Job Well Done!

The PRR always was, and still is, truly alive with this excellent show of pride from "The Standard Railroad of the World."

Ron Widman, Columbus.

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http://crestline.pennsyrr.com
lineswest@columbus.rr.com

Did you take any pictures? Sounds like it would make a good brief.

Railway Preservation News
hkading@rypn.org

> Did you take any pictures? Sounds like it
> would make a good brief.

Hume, I am very low-tech, meaning the film is at the store and will be ready Wed. Also, do not have the tech-what-ever-it-is that lets one post pix here. If a word pic would help at all, let me try that. The PRR/NYC diamond at Crestline, where the pass. sta. was is today a weed-overgrown mess, with the remnants of the Pennsy platforms, a vacant lot where the sta. was, the PRR down to single track, and a highway overpass above the whole thing. Bout the only remaining bright spot is that CREST Tower still stands in the s.e. quad of the diamond, with a position-light signal next to it. Whole scene is very depressing if one knows what used to be there. I broke down some of the foliage to get a better shot of 5711 pulling across the diamond alongside the tower. There were 30-or-so folks there, the train looked like a million dollars, and one had the feeling Rod Serling was behind the entire event. Hope this makes up a bit for the lack of photos. Jim

stighe1@columbus.rr.com

> Did you take any pictures? Sounds like it
> would make a good brief.

Hume,

I know several people who were there for the show, and they did take some photos. They are being posted on The Crestline Roundhouse Preservation Society's web site at http://crestlineroundhouse.org/. There are just two there now, but they will add more soon, so check back for additional photos.

Bill Ayers

http://crestlineroundhouse.org
prrq2@prairieinet.net