In the 1970s and 80s, Detroit Edison ran unit coal trains from Detroit, Michigan to the coal fields of West Virginia, to procure coal for their various electric power plants. These trains were often routed through Youngstown, Ohio on the former Pennsylvania Railroad and on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (P&LE) tracks.

 

The images from the 1970s were scanned from 35mm Kodachrome slides.
Recent images were shot digitally with a Canon EOS 70D.

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Captions coming soon.

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