22-10-08 PHOTOS: Cleveland Line Autos

It is becoming mighty hard to find position light type signals these days, especially ones in a single direction ABS configuration. However that is just what happens to exist on a portion of the former Conrail Cleveland Line along the north bank of the Ohio River between Beaver, PA and Yellow Creek, Ohio. I had made a similar trip in 2021, visiting a single Cleveland Line PL signal location and in October, 2022 I manage to visit two more along with another stop at EAST CONWAY. This will be a short post, but you can still find the full set of photos here ( mirror ).

The first location was at Milepost 4.5 in sight of the PA route 68 overpass. This is a simple pair of single head, single direction, approach lit automatic signals.

The second location was at Milepost 8.7 and consisted of a single head PL signal in the eastbound direction and a new color light signal in the westbound due to the installation of a single track segment 1 block to the west.

Milepost 8.7 is also the location of the Midland Hotbox, dragging equipment and high car detector.

Driving back east I stopped by the old Beaver, PA P&LE station. Although currently owned by CSX, the P&LE route was previously a New York Central subsidiary that likely avoided being absorbed into Conrail due to its relationship with the B&O.

At EAST CONWAY I found NS AC44C6M #4312 sitting on the hill track, while a westbound manifest train waiting for passage on track #2 with AC44C6M #4011 leading and ES44AC #8022 behind.

Facing towards the old tower, an eastbound manifest train was pulling out of track #3 and crossing over to track #4 led by C44-10W #7516 and AC44C6M #4431.

Behind the tower, SD40-2 #6198 was shifting cars in the westbound receiving yard.

Traffic in the yard looked pretty healthy. Although EAST CONWAY interlocking had lost its position light signals in the 2000's, it was only in 2019 that the pneumatic point machines were replaced by M-series electrics.

Like I said this was going to be a short post. I'll be back next time with a longer post covering a day along the LIRR in Queens.