It's a humid and summer-like Spring Sunday morning on the Indiana & Ohio Railway's former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad mainline near the South Switch of Tremont Siding as CRC/LM&M GP7 55 leads a rare mileage excursion dubbed the "Quincy Cannonball" northbound. 55 is celebrating her 68th birthday this month, having been built in May of 1950 as C&O 5704, and is the oldest continually active GP7 in the U.S. The Quincy Cannonball excursion was operated by a new CRC affiliate operation called Ohio Rail Experience, which will be operating rare mileage trips throughout central and western Ohio. After running a "Lima Limited" excursion from Springfield to Lima and return on May 19, The Quincy Cannonball ran from Springfield to Quincy and return twice on May 20.
My photos that I have taken on lines operated the Indiana & Ohio and it's affiliate operations, including the Central Railroad of Indiana (CIND), and the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad (CF&E).
My photos of the Cincinnati Railway and their operations, including the Cincinnati Dinner Train and the Lebanon, Mason & Monroe Railroad.
For more information on the CRC and their operations, please visit http://www.cincinnatirailway.com/
