This restored B&O caboose sits about 4 long blocks down the road behind the Dollar Store in Crestline 3/12/09 (Tom Boylan)

In the good old -- read that as steam -- days, B&O 2514, and crew, ride the turntable at the Willard roundhouse (Tom Boylan coll.)

B&O 2548 (2-8-0) is working the Finday local freight at Deshler 7/55 (Max Miller photo, Sheldon Lustug coll.)

C&O 4005 is on Train 15 at the Fort St. Depot, Detroit, headed to Lansing and Grand Rapids c. 1958 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 4588 and a sister stand at W. 3rd St., Cleveland c. 1958 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 6396 (GP30) and 2 others are on an eastbound freight at Sterling c. 1958 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O caboose 2801 brings up the rear of the eastbound freight at Sterling in the previous photo c. 1958 (Sheldon Lustig)

The Artrain passed through Willard in the '70s; here it is in the Westbound receiving behind the loco shop. (Tom Boylan)

This is not graffiti, but it is the decoration of one of the 1970s Artrain cars passing through Willard Yard (Tom Boylan)

Another of the 1970s Artrain cars passing through Willard Yard (Tom Boylan)

B&O 4613 leads a northbound freight from New Castle, PA, on the CT&V under the old Harvard-Dennison Bridge, Clevekand c. 1960 (Sheldon Lustig)

Chessie 4201 is on the point of a westbound B&O train at Sterling c. 1960 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 9093 switches a cut of cars at Painesville c. 1960 (Sheldon Lustig)

BNSF 1039 (C44-9W), in Heritage I, leads 8 other units west on CSX, crossing the NS tracks, at Fostoria, Oct. 2007 (Ron Marston)

B&O/Chessie/CSXT 2400 (SD20-2) is sitting on the test track at Willard Yard in 1990 (Tom Boylan)

Chessie/CSXT 4200 (GP30) is on the Willard Yard ready track being built into a consist c. 1990 (Tom Boylan)

Very specially load! This gon carrying the U.S. National Capitol Christmas Tree in 1990 was on the Willard hump (Tom Boylan)

Sign on the gon carrying the 1990 U.S. National Capitol Christmas Tree as it passed through Willard Yard (Tom Boylan)

Susquehanna 3612 (SD45) was a visitor to Willard Yard in 1990, and is resting on the shop short track (Tom Boylan)

In 1991, Santa Fe 8125 (C40-7A) was leading a CSX eastbound out of Willard (Tom Boylan)

Youngstown & Austintown 1501 on the westbound caboose track at CSX Willard waiting for processing and shipment, 1991 (Tom Boylan)

CSX 8204 and 6368 (2 SD40-2) bring CSX K310 east past the ex-B&O station at Fostoria 6/7/97 before the CPL's were removed (Richard Croy)

B&O passenger unit 1454 in Willard Yard in 1968 (Tom Boylan)

B&O 4542 on a 3-unit consist in Willard in 1969. (Tom Boylan)

Canton RR 1201 (SW1200) switcher is sitting on the Willard eastbound hump as a waybill passing through to Baltimore, c.1954 (Tom Boylan)

A D&H vistor to Willard was this 7406, an ex- Guilford engine which became a CSX engine, c. mid-1980's (Tom Boylan)

Some D&H units, such as 7403, used to visit Willard fairly often in the mid-late 1980's (Tom Boylan)

An "oldie but goodie"; Conrail switcher 8860 in the Willard roundhouse for some repairs late 1980's (Tom Boylan)

B&O 4487 is leading the consist departing Willard at Daniels Rd. in the early '70s (Tom Boylan)

B&O 4105 (GP30M) was selected by the company to carry the sunburst Silver Anniversary emblem just below the cab step c. 1988 (Tom Boylan)

P&LE power used to come to Willard frequently in the 1980's. Here 3 of their units are sitting in Willard Yard waiting their next run. (Tom Boylan)

C&O 7310 is sitting on the crossover track at the Willard Shop in the late '70s being, built into a train (Tom Boylan)

Oh, oh! In the '70s these autoracks leaving town decidded to go sideways between the Willard Shop sand tower and the RX building (Tom Boylan)

The B&O "Big Hook" is out helping to clean up the auto rack derailment at RK, Willard, in the mid-'70s (Tom Boylan)

This isn't the way they're supposed to beI Another view of the mid-'70s auto rack wreck at RX, Willard (Tom Boylan)

In the mid-1990's, Chessie had a Amtrak 706 (F40PH) pullng the executive inspection train at Willard (Tom Boylan)

CSX F units 116-117 at Willard Yard in 1988; they look good in this paint scheme. Both units now are gone. (Tom Boylan)

This was the Willard roundhouse in the early 1990s before it was demolished in 1994 (Tom Boylan)

Chessie System/B&O 4228 is being turned on the Cleveland turntable in the Clark Ave. yard n 1983 (Tom Boylan)

WM 6401 (GP9) was laying over in Willard Yard in 1983 waiting for train assignment (Tom Boylan)

CSX 9109 and 9110 (C44-9W) have just arrived in Willard from GE Erie, and are ready for service, early 1990's; units have been renumbered (Tom Boylan)

CSX "pumpkin" 9600, a GP30 which has been dedicated and painted for work train service stands at Willard early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

CSX 5511 is trying out one of CSX early versions of paint schemes, early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

CSX 6344 wears one of the road's early version -- possibly the secind -- paint schemes, early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

CSX 700 Spirit of Cumberland (SD70MAC) sits just above Beech St. crossing in Grafton, WV, late 1990's. Loco has been renumbered. (Tom Boylan)

Ashland 2035 (GP20) and 3054 wait at Willard for permission to bring their train from Mansfield into CSX's yard 8/13/02 (Richard Croy)

CNW 8701 (C44-9W) rides the #2 spot behind UP 7519 (C6000AC) on CSX Q390 east at Berea 9/3/02 (Richard Croy)

Ex-WC 1234 and 6642 (SW1200/SD45) are headed for LTEX at McDonald, OH, in the consist of a CSX train at Fostoria 9/5/02 (Richard Croy)

BNSF 8275 (SD75M Warbonnet) and a "Pumpkin" lead a CSX coal train east across Greenwich Town Line Rd., New London 8/13/02 (Richard Croy)

After a water stop in Willard Yard, CSX 2609 and 2690 (2 GP38-2) head east on the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus train 10/7/02 (Richard Croy)

In the care of CSX 2609 and 2690 (2 GP38-2) the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus train heads east at Willard 10/7/02 (Richard Croy)

With the performers and stock cars ahead, the equipment cars bring up the rear of the Ringling Bros. circus train at Willard 10/7/03 (Richard Croy)

The Redcoats are coming! CP 8644 (AC4400CW) brings CSX D964, a CP detour, east at Fostoria to go to Toledo 10/1/02 (Richard Croy)

BNSF 9640 and 8256 (SD70MAC/SD75I) roll CSX E940 empty coal train west at Berea headed back to Powder River 8/30/02 (Richard Croy)

CSX E940 empty Powder River coal train is at Edwards Rd., Greenwich, with BNSF 9656, 9465, and 6389 (2 SD70MAC/SD40-2) 10/7/02 (Richard Croy)

CSX E940 empty Powder River coal train with BNSF 9656, 9465, and 6389 (2 SD70MAC/SD40-2) arrives at 2nd St., Willard 10/7/02 (Richard Croy)

CSX E942 empty Powder River coal heads west at Berea with BNSF 9495 and 9423 (2 SD70MAC) 8/30/02 (Richard Croy)

With UP 4561 and two sisters (3 SD70M) doing the honors, CSX Q152 digs in at First St., Willard, for its eastbound run 7/30/02 (Richard Croy)

BNSF Warbonnet 689 (C44-9W) is the boss of eastbound CSX Q288 auto rack train at Fostoria 10/1/02 (Richard Croy)

ASRY 2035 and 3054 (2 GP20) are maneuvering their train at Willard to get onto the ASRY track to go back to Mansfield 9/17/02 (Richard Croy)

CP 5866, 5732 and SOO 6047 (2 SD40-2/SD60) bring CSX Q386 east at Berea 9/8/02 (Richard Croy)

SOO 6047 (SD60) is riding third behind 2 CP SD40-2's rolling CSX Q396 east at Berea 9/8/02 (Richard Croy)

UP 4778 (SD70M) prepares to lead CSX Q351 west out of Willard Yard, at the old J Tower site, 8/8/02 (Richard Croy)

Greenies. FURX 3020 and 3037 (2 SD40-2) leasers roll CSX Q357 west in Fostoria 8/8/02 (Richard Croy)

BNSF Warbonnet 793 (C44-9W) leads 2 FURX leasers east across Main St., Fostoria, on CSX Q386 11/13/02 (Richard Croy)

UP 5817 (C44AC-CTE) and an UP SD90MAC power CSX Q387 west through Fostoria 11/13/02 (Richard Croy)

UP 4339 (SD70M) and two sisters have CSX Q390 in tow eastbound at Berea 7/27/02 (Richard Croy)

CSX Q390 is eastbound at Fostoria behind UP 4553 (SD70M) and two other UP units 8/8/02 (Richard Croy)

UP 4031 (SD70M) and a sister rush CSX Q390 east near the New London reservoir 7/30/02 (Richard Croy)

B&P 211 (GP9) in CSX's Willard Yard, 12/20/88 (Steve LaConte)

In 1988 CSX used the Willard turntable as a shortcut from one side of the yard to the other. This unit is spotting some cars (Steve LaConte)

CSX 710 (SD70MAC) and a NS C40-8 race eastward at Berea past the infamous, and noe gone, "blue box" between the tracks 8/1/02 (Richard Croy)

WM 7595 arrives the Willard pit for service in 1983 during the good old Chessie System days (Tom Boylan)

A B&O switcher sits on the Chicago Div. ready track in Willard with the Chessie Steam Special on the eastbound main, mid-1970's (Tom Boylan)

Chessie System/B&O 6238 heads under the now-gone engine pit walkway at Willard in 1993 (Tom Boylan)

Bring back "the "kitten"! C&0 2061 (GP38) looks smart in the Chessie System "kitten" scheme here at Defiance in the early '90s. (Joe Kohnen)

Nice kitty! Chessie/B&O 4291 (GP40-2) was in B&O's Willard Yard on 2/10/83. (Steve LaConte)

Chessie Steam Special has arrived in Willard Yard in late '80's, and 2101 (ex-RDG 4-8-4, now at the B&O Musem) draws railfans' interst (Tom Boylan)

GE 2002, a C36-7 Super 7 demo, was in and out of Willard Yard frequently in the early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

L&N 3318, sublettered for CSXT, is sitting on the WIllard Yard short track in the late 1990's (Tom Boylan)

CSX 6726 was the CSX Detroit Div. Operation Redblock loco at Willard in the 19\980's, painted for a drug and alcohol safety program. (Tom Boylan)

Family Lines 3006, here at Willard in the 1990's, is one of the few BQ23-7s which it and CSX had in their system. (Tom Boylan)

Stealth in the '90's. CSX 2151 in its early gray-&-blue scheme leads a freight out of Willard under the old walkway, mid-1990 (Tom Boylan)

Western Maryland 7595 is on the service track in Willard, one of many WM engines which visited the yard in the early 1980's (Tom Boylan)

C&O 4082 (GP40) in the engine pit at Willard, 11/13/80 (Steve LaConte)

WM 7140 (F7b) and B&O 6576 are coupled together in Willard Yard 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

B&O 2023 is in Willard in the early ' 90's after the merger into C&O/CSX; note the variety of "paint jobs" on this loco. (Tom Boylan)

B&O caboose C2424 white-lined in Willard Yard in 10/83, has a new life at the Mad River & NKP Museum in Bellevue (Steve LaConte)

GCFX 3072 (SD40-2), rebuilt by Alstom and carrying its branding, is on a CSX auto rack train at Deshler 9/21/01 (Arnold LeBowsky)

B&O 4104 (GP40) stands at Willard 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

B&O 6668 (GP9) is at Willard Yard on 11/30/80 (Steve LaConte)

The purple tint on B&O 7410 (GP35) in Willard on 6/22/81 comes from its working the iron ore docks in Lorain (Steve LaConte)

B&O 6906 (GP30) stands by the car shope at Willard Yard, 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

B&O 3771. 4127, and 3721 are in charge of an eastbound on the B&O main through Sterling c.1970 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 4233, in the Chessie Kitten scheme, and 2 other units rush an eastboiund freight past Sterling Tower c.1970 (Sheldon Lustig)

Western Maryland 7157 sits lead out in a loco consist at the B&O roundhouse in Toledo in 1977 (Tom Boylan)

The year is 1978 and WM 7548 (SD40) in Willard Yard was one many WM units which visited there (Tom Boylan)

Brother bridges at Caledonia, OH: CSX still uses the Big Four bridge (left), the ex-Erie bridge (right) is out of service. 1/27/08 (Heinz Raidel)

B&O 6952 (GP30, in "basic blue," stands at Akron 6/27/81 (Steve LaConte)

B&O 6968 (GP30) in the "kitten" scheme at Willard Yard, 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

B&O caboose C2930 is on display near the CSX tracks in North Baltimore, OH 12/27/08 (Bryce Garber)

B&O 4291 (GP40) at Willard Yard. 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

WM 6413 (GP9) was working on CSX (B&O) in Akron 7/27/81 (Steve LaConte)

Two Western Maryland F7's and a Chessie GP roll west by Sterling Tower on the B&O in the summer of 1976 (Jeff Reams)

B&O 6539 (GP9) was working in Sandusky in June, 1975 (Steve LaConte)

B&O train 53 with 1423 and 1401 is southbound at DR Tower, Deshler, as a B&O RDC car waits on the siding 2/6/65 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 6924 in sunburst nose scheme leads a eastbound freight at Deshler 2/6/65 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 8440 maneuvers a cut of cars at Deshler 2/6/65 (Sheldon Lustig)

GTW used to run a daily Flat Rock, MI, auto train through Fostoria. GTW 5705 and 5425 (2 GP38) are eastbound to Willard 7/94 (Richard Croy)

B&O 7409 and 4102 (2 SD40) are among the engines in the Willard pit on 8/1/82. (Steve LaConte)

GTW 5834 and 5718 head east at Attica Jct. with the Detroit-Willard auto parts train 10/17/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

MARC AEM-7 4091 is in tow on an eastbound CSX freight at Boughtonville 8/23/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

MRL 357 and CP 5574 power a short eastbound CSX freight at Michigan City, IN, 9/17/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

The only way to fly! A section of a Boeing 737 jet headed for Everett, WA, passed through Willard Yard by rail on 9/26/82

In the late 1980's, Buffalo & Pittsburgh units would visit Willard. Here B&P 211 (GP-9) is at the old footbridge by the roundhouse. (Steve LaConte)

CoSteel coil car on NS 184 at Attica Jct. Car os ex-DEEX coal hopper rebuilt by a Bucyrus company into a coil car. 10/12/02 (Steve LaConte)

D&H 4075 (RS3) was a 4/28/89 visitor to Willard Yard in the days when D&H power was common there. (Steve LaConte)

When did you ever see a "1-Spot" car? ILDX 1 covered hopper marked for GE was in Willard 3/4/89 (Steve LaConte)

Clinchfield 8338 is in for servicing on the old engine pit at Willard Yard in the early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

Conrail 1980 (C23-7) proudly proclaimed Keep It Moving With Conrail in this 1980's era photo. (Tom Boylan)

D&H 4318 (GP38-2), sublettered for CSX, was a frequent visitor in Willard Yard in the mid-1980's (Tom Boylan)

Willard Yard was an interesting place in the early 1990's with several D&H units, such as 7401 (GP38-2) in and out regularly (Tom Boylan)

D&H 7406 (GP38-2) in the Guilford paint scheme sits in Willard Yard in the late 1980's (Tom Boylan)

There's no mistaking the Reading heritage of grungy D&H 7409 (GP38-2) in the service line in Willard Yard in the late 1980's. (Tom Boylan)

D&H 7412 (ex-RDG GP38-2) was a f requent lease visitor to Willard Yard in the early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

Looking east at "RX" in Willard toward the diamonds. The old platform is at the right. Black tank was passenger loco fuel, mid-1990's (Tom Boylan)

EMD 103, the FT demonstrator repainted for a special tour, was in Willard Yard in the early 1990's. (Tom Boylan)

Lookin' sharp! EMD 103, a FT demonstrator, visited Willard Yard in the early 1990's on a special GM tour. (Tom Boylan)

A 1980's visitor to the Willard Yard engine pit was EMD 218 (SD40T-2W [?]) in blue-&-white demo paint scheme. (Tom Boylan)

This was the old fuel rack at Willard in 1993 before everything was rebuilt. Note the GTW locos at rear. (Tom Boylan)

In the early 1990's, GTW 5702 had just come into Willard on CSX Q398 while C&O 7802 prepared to head back to the Toledo docks. (Tom Boylan)

MPEX 2003 switcher demo passed through Willard Yard headed back to Boise Locomotive in Idaho in 2003 (Tom Boylan)

The now-gone walkway over the engine pit used to provide good views of the waiting power, here in 1993. (Tom Boylan)

Family portrait. In the 1980's, the photographer, a B&O/CSX employee, posed these "sister kittens" together in Willard Yard for a photo. (Tom Boylan)

A TrailerJet, that's what B&O and Chessie called van trains, rushes east past the closed Youngstown B&O Station, late 1980's (Tom Boylan)

WC painted 3026 with a route map in honor of the road's 50 years in 2002. The "contraption" is an unique sand tower. (Tom Boylan)

Looking west from the old Willard walkway. The Santa Fe-painted Geeps were headed for the Ashland as new power. Mid-1990's (Tom Boylan)

In 1958 an eastbound B&O passenger train sits at Willard Station at "RX". The foreground track went to Sandusky and Newark. (Tom Boylan collection)

A RF&P switcher sits in the midst of a sea of Chessie units in the Willard Yard pit in the early 1980's (Tom Boylan)

Santa Fe invasion! A string of "blue bonnets" stands in the Willard engine pit in 1992, shot from the now-gone overhead walkway bridge. (Tom Boylan)

These are W&LE's original 100 and 101 locos entering Willard Yard in 1994. These locos have been replaced, (To Boylan)

W&LE 101 and a sister are at Boughtonville Rd. heading for Willard in 1994. These locos ran 1992-95 and now have been replaced. (Tom Boylan)

"Old" W&LE 102 in Willard Yard in 1994. This loco and sisters 100 and 103 ran on W&LE 1992-95, and have been replaced by "new" 100-103. (Tom Boylan)

"Tuxedo sharp." W&LE 103, one of three similar units it ran 1992-95, looks good in black & white in CSX's Willard Yard in 1994. (Tom Boylan)

Western Maryland 7495 is on the service track in Willard, one of many WM engines which visited the yard in the early 1980's (Tom Boylan)

In the winter of 1977, WM 3795 (GP35[?]) was waiting to be worked on the Willard service pit (Tom Boylan)

WM 6216, here in Willard in the late 1980's, was carded as the leader on CSX Q352 and getting ready to go out. (Tom Boylan)

In the good days, WM/Chessie 6418 is sitting in the Willard Yard short track in the early '80's (Tom Boylan)

WM 7172 (BL-2) and its slug mate used to pay a lot of visits to Willard in the early 1990's. Here they are on the Akron Div. ready track. (Tom Boylan)

Western Maryland 7435 (SD35) is entering the Willard westbound receiving yard in 1978 (Tom Boylan)

An eastbound B&O freight passes RU Tower guarding the B&O/E-L crossing at Sterling 3/19/68. Track to right goes to Cleveland (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O westbound freight is about to pass RU Tower at Sterling 3/19/67 (Sheldon Lustig)

B&O 6934, 3542, and 6922 roar past RU Tower, Sterling, with an eastbound freight 3/19/67 (Sheldon Lustig)

Eastbound and westbound B&O freights meet at RU Tower in Sterling 3/19/67. RU, now gone, guarded the B&O/E-L crossing. (Sheldon Lustig)

C&O 1414 is the power for B&O train 53 at Dayton Union Station 6/18/65 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 2085, 8625, 8643, and 7010 h andle and eastbound CSX freight at Greenwich 9/19/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 2103, 6679, and 8609 are eastbound at Cuyahoga Falls 11/8/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 2269, 6499, 3323, 2170, ATSF 8021, CSX 2045, and 6623 are westbound at Greenwich 11/21/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 2269, 6499, 3323, 2170, ATSF 8021, CSX 2045, and 6623 are westbound at Greenwich 11/21/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 2269, 6499, 3323, 2170, ATSF 8021, CSX 2045, and 6623 are westbound at Greenwich 11/21/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 2765 -- really NKP 765 in disguise -- on an eastbound passenger special at Powder Mill Rd. crossing east of Kent 9/93 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 3303, 3102, and 6478 lead a CSX train south off the B&O main and onto the Toledo Sub at Deshler 9/5/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6024, 4305, 4225, 6248, and 2079 pull a 100-car coke train west at Ravenna 12/20/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6033 and 6043 are headed west at Attica Jct., 10/17/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6061 and 6133 are westbound at Ravenna with 72 cars 12/20/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6061 and 6133 are westbound at Ravenna with 72 cars 12/20/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6108 and 6597 have 100-car westbound in tow at Attica Jct. 10/17/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6139, 6031, 6076, and 6131 are headed east at Willard 10/17/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6248 and 4225 lead an empty coke train east off the CL&W at Sterling, passing the abandoned RU Tower 12/19/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6413, 2227, and TORC 999 are heading for interchange with NS at Fostoria 6/8/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6413, 2227, TORC (Toledo Docks) 999 interchangng with NS at Fostoria 6/28/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6448, 6126, and 5920 are westbound at Greenwich, passing the WLE one-story tower 11/21/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6524, 1914, 2976, 4222, 2595, and 2041 power a westbound CSX freight at Warwick 9/13/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6615 and 5 more units power a westbound freight at Paris Twp. 8/78 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6694 and 7633 are westbound at Greenwich 9/19/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 6742, 6711, 7091, and 8194 on an eastbound CSX freight at Deshler 9/5/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 8198 and 8083 pull a 115-car coal train north at Carey toward Fostoria and Toledo 9/19/92 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 8612, 8507, and a LMS unit a re eastbound at Kent 9/27/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX light power move west at Cuyahoga Falls 11/8/92 has CSX 8628, 6044, 2049, 8357, 8700, 8627, 8114, and ATSF 8148 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 8632, 8027, and 7010 are eastbound at Greenwich 9/6/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 8632, 8027, and 7010 are eastbound at Greenwich 9/6/97 (Sheldon Lustig)

CSX 8312 (SD40-2) and a GTW loco bring a westbound CSX train into Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, July, 2000 (Sheldon Lustig)

The purple tint on B&O 7410 (GP35) in Willard on 6/22/81 comes from its working the iron ore docks in Lorain (Steve LaConte)

B&O 904063 caboose at Willard 2/16/89 has 25th anniversary of the sunburst paint scheme (Steve LaConte)

B&O 4064 (GP40) is in the engine pit at Willard, seen from the old walkway 10/13/80 (Steve LaConte)

B&O 7407 (SD35) followed by WM 7432 at Lorain crossing NKP at "RU" Tower 8/7/84 (Steve LaConte)

B&O 8421 (SW1) in C&O "kitten" paint is out of service with its stack capped in Willard Yard 10/31/81 (Steve LaConte)

Chessie Steam Special at Willard, 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

Chessie Steam Special behind 2101 smokes its way west of Willard, 8/78 (Steve LaConte)

C&O GP40 4091 and a B&O GP30 headed west out of Willard on 11/10/82 are at "J" Tower (now gone) at the west end of the yard. (Steve LaConte)

C&O 6051 is in the servicing area at Willard Yard on 12/31/83 (Steve LaConte)

C&O 614 (4-8-4) on the Chessie Steam Special stands near the old Willard Yard car shops on 6/22/81. (Steve LaConte)

Chessie 5362 (U30b) leads a string of "kittens" at Willard 1/31/89 (Steve LaConte)

CSX 7562 (C40-8W), freshly arrived from GE, stands at the Willard Shop to be set up and placed into service 9/89 (Steve LaConte)

Burp! CSX 7571 (C40-8W) gets rid of cylinder oil as part of the initial start-up process at Willard Yard 9/89 (Steve LaConte)

CSX 8905 (SD45) is an ex- SCL unit in Willard 1/19/89 (Steve LaConte)

The year is 1983 and a bedraggled B&O1829 pulls a cut of cars out of Willard Yard (Tom Boylan)

Rather famous. B&O 2002 (G P38) orginally was 3802 and in 1982 Trains Magazine selected it as the All American Diesel here in Willard (Tom Boylan)

Still testing. The CSX yellow nose paint scheme makes its appearance on B&O 2107 in Willard Yard in the early 1990's (Tom Boylan)

B&O 2243, a Baldwin AS616, was working in local service in Cincinnati in the 1970's (Tom Boylan)

In the good ol' days (1970's) B&O 4508 sits on the Willard ready track waiting for departure. (Tom Boylan)

This B&O car was removed from wreck train service in the '90's, moved to Willard ans repainted into a safety car at the yard (Tom Boylan)

This is the same car after repainting as the safety car at Willard Yard and now is owned by Midwest Railway Heritage Soc. in Cleveland (Tom Boylan)

Big oops! In January, 1959, the westbound Capitol Limited took this big spill while approaching Willlard on the old B&O (Tom Boylan)

In the '90's CSX turned BQ23-7 3003 into a "B" unit by removing the seats, plating over the windows, and giving it new paint. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 6344, in Willard Yard with a CSX executive train in the '90's, models another CSX's experimental paint which wasn't adopted. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 7571 (C40-8W), in another test scheme, clears its throat while being put into service at Willard in1990. The footbridge is now gone. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 1992 (C40-8W), in Willard, was decorated to pull President George H. W. Bush's 1992 campaign train. It later became CSX 7812. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 1992 (C40-8W), in Willard, was decorated to pull President George H. W. Bush's 1992 campaign train. It later became CSX 7812. (Tom Boylan)

This is what the CSX 7812 (C40-8W) looks like today after having a two special paint jobs in the 1990's. 6/07 (Tom Boylan)

Blue Suede Shoes. CSX 8708 in Willard Yard in the early '90's, models another corporate paint scheme which did not survive. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 8961, in yet another 1990's CSX test paint scheme, is in Willard Yard awaiting assignment. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 9113 has arrived in Willard from GE Erie in the early 1990's and CSX will put it in service there. The loco has a new number today. (Tom Boylan)

CSX "pumpkin" 9508, one of the MoW fleet, takes a rest for the weekend on the Willard Yard short track in 2000. (Tom Boylan)

CSX 9600 (GP30) is one of the "pumpkin gang" in bright orange for MofW service in the 1990's. It may now be a remote control slug (Tom Boylan)

Stealth in the '90's. CSX 2151 in its early gray-&-blue scheme leads a freight out of Willard under the old walkway, mid-1990 (Tom Boylan)

Twins. CSX 9110 and 9109 (2 AC4400CW) stand on the ready track at Willard after being put into service there in 1995. Both now renumbered (Tom Boylan)

Digging out. The B&O crane at Willard Yard lifts SBD 8300 out of the turntable after the air failed and the unit rolled in, 1980. (Tom Boylan)

Here we go again! Somebody forgot to chock the wheels, CSX 1519 lost its air and rolled into the Willard turntable pit, 1990's (Tom Boylan)

In 1958 an eastbound B&O passenger train sits at Willard Station at "RX". The foreground track went to Sandusky and Newark. (Tom Boylan collection)